Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pull a 20-14 upset to label itself a slight threat to Army in the East. Cornell proved once more the folly of Ivy League teams competing outside their own bailiwick. The undefeated Big Red got mauled 55-0 by Syracuse in a game so lopsided that Syracuse Coach Ben Schwartzwalder had to send for an old set of jerseys to have enough to mercifully suit up his fifth-stringers...
...again, this time on the principle that "if the French come against us with a hammer, we will become mosquitoes." Instead of a single large army, they concentrated on building small, highly trained cadres. As the nucleus of the F.L.N. (Front de Libération Nationale) took shape, Mohammed ben Bella, a former French army noncom with a brilliant World War II combat record, negotiated promises of aid from Egypt. Then at i a.m. of All Saints' Day, 1954, simultaneously across Algeria, 30 F.L.N. bands struck. The Algerian war had begun...
...friendly confines of a Y.M.C.A. meeting, TV Actor Ben Alexander, Dragnet's heavy-footed Sergeant Frank Smith, in real life a solid businessman and parent (three children), rapped out his private A.P.B. on a teen idol, the late Cinemactor James Dean: "This ruthless, selfish, egotistical young fool was nobody's idol until our children were told that he was. He was an All-American rebel against all manners, morals, family decency and Christian society...
Majestic, Big Ben-like bongs pealed out across Washington last week, as carillon experts triumphantly tested, for the first time, the biggest of the 27 French-built bells in the stately, 100-ft. Robert Taft Memorial Tower on Capitol Hill. The tone proved just right, and the tower, built with almost $900,000 in private donations as a memorial to the late Republican Senator from Ohio, would be ready right on schedule for dedication-and presentation to Congress as a gift to the nation-next spring...
...findings to its 161,000 shareholders, employees and dealers. If the program proves a success, Standard Oil Co. (Ohio), among other companies, will copy it. Top executives from U.S. business are now forming conservative but nonpartisan Americans for Constitutional Action to endorse pro-business candidates. Headed by Admiral Ben Moreell, who retires this week as chairman of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., ACA counts among its trustees Armstrong Cork Co. Chairman Henning W. Prentis Jr.; former Sears, Roebuck & Co. Chairman General Robert Wood; McGraw-Edison Co. Chairman (and former New Jersey Democratic Governor) Charles Edison. In Los Angeles County, Republicans have...