Word: ben
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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negotiators. On arrival at Dar el Beida Airport, Christopher was driven to a two-hour meeting with Algerian Foreign Minister Mohammed Ben Yahia. Meanwhile, a second set of Iranian questions arrived in Washington, prompting Christopher to extend his stay in Algiers...
...years something like 18 million short-wave sets have been sold in the U.S. alone. One Manhattan writer, who owns an inexpensive Sony ($115), has made the BBC's morning news an essential part of his breakfast. "My reception is so good," he brags, "that when Big Ben chimes, it sends shock waves through my coffee...
...edition of his works, and the stitching between these set pieces and interpolated transitions is often loose. Little matter. The story is fascinating, whatever Greene says, and spiced with ir resistible anecdotes. Producer Sam Zimbalist once asked Greene to revise the end of a script for a remake of Ben-Hur: "You see, we find a kind of anticlimax after the Crucifixion." There was the tune the author was sued for libel by Shirley Temple; Greene recalls, "I had suggested that she had a certain adroit coquetry which appealed to middle-aged men." And the time he was deported from...
...DIED. Ben Travers, 94, British playwright whose comedies about rational people struggling with outrageous circumstances tickled audiences for five decades; in London. Travers kept the laughs coming right up to 1976, when at 89 he staged The Bed Before Yesterday, a hit sex farce starring Joan Plowright...
Today the same measure of dedication sparks the Skunk Works assembly line, where much of the work is still done by hand under Johnson's successor Ben Rich. Says Engineer Don Bunce, 62, who came out of retirement to work on the new bird: "Hell, I feel good just seeing all these old tools doing a job again...