sentences:  As Chairman of PSA, now known as PSA Corporation, Howe went against the advice of professionals to build Singapore's first container terminal in the early 1970s.Howe's first call to enter politics came as early as 1953 from Lee Kuan Yew, then a practising lawyer.However, he declined Lee's invitation as he believed that Singapore needed civil servants in light of the repatriation of British forces during the post-World War II period.