Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Casablanca movie house to announce the formation of a new political party, the National Union of Popular Forces. It was the most important political development in Morocco since the North African kingdom got its independence 3½ years ago, and it made its leader, 39-year-old Mehdi ben Barka, the most important man in Morocco next to King Mohammed V and the monarchy's unquestioned challenger...
Autumn after autumn, the dream has persisted, in alleys and wood lots, mansions and tenements: every American could rise by education. Ben Franklin nourished it with self-improvement primers. Jefferson gave it philosophical reasons. An unlettered people scrambled for skill and knowledge. "Your government will never be able to restrain a distressed and discontented majority,'' warned Britain's Lord Macaulay. "This opinion," retorted President-to-be James Garfield. "leaves out the great counterbalancing force of universal education/' The focus of a European town remained the cathedral; the focus of an American town became the high school...
...passed the House by a voice vote and the Senate by a lopsided 82 to 9, and since it included projects for every state, a lot of Republicans would be tempted to vote to override the veto. Said Iowa's Congressman Ben Jensen, ranking Republican on the Appropriations subcommittee that drafted the measure: "I just can't see how the President could veto this bill." Before boarding his plane at midweek, the President fired several other salvos in his running battle with the Democratic Congress. Items...
Ellery Queen (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Rerun of This Murder Comes to You Live, a standard whodunit with a special appeal: this time a TV panelist is murdered on the air. Involved in the happy crime: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ben Hecht, Ray Walston and Buster Crabbe. Color...
Ogunquit, Me., Playhouse: Ben Gazarra in John Osborne's angry Epitaph for George Dillon...