Word: ben
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...prime force. The son of an Oklahoma farm-mortgage broker, Walton earned an economics degree from the University of Missouri and joined J.C. Penney in 1940 as an $85-a-month trainee. After serving in the Army, he pooled his savings and borrowed $25,000 to buy a Ben Franklin store in Newport, Ark., in 1945. By the late 1950s he owned more than a dozen similar stores, but decided that the future was in discounting rather than in five-and-dimes. After studying a K mart in Chicago, Walton and his younger brother James, now a company senior vice...
...most famous play ever written about newspapermen, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur painted a sardonic portrait of hard-boiled, hardhearted journalists, but it was a picture tinged with affection for the profession's raffish charm. Last week, however, many people found nothing charming about the press's role in the collapse of Gary Hart's presidential candidacy. If no one actually peeped through keyholes, reporters were doing things that couldn't help looking a bit tawdry. A team of journalists staked out a man's home to discover who was spending the night there. A presidential candidate was asked...
...most part avoided the subject in print. The belated disclosure of these affairs -- especially the reports of Kennedy's many sexual flings, including one with a woman linked to Mafia figures -- helped bring about the new climate. "The rules have certainly changed," says Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, who covered Kennedy as a reporter and editor for Newsweek and became a good friend. "You couldn't get away with that...
...political rhetoric from all sides. At the funeral, Ortega charged that Linder had been "assassinated by mercenaries following orders from the CIA." Several American groups opposed to U.S. funding of the contras similarly held the Reagan Administration responsible for "murder." Linder's father also fingered Washington, declaring,"Who killed Ben? He was killed by someone, they were hired by someone, and they were paid by someone, and so on down the line to < the President of the U.S." The contras tried to pin blame on Managua by charging the Sandinista regime with having allowed Linder to enter a war zone...
...those who are heavily involved in athletics, however, living in the Quad can make commuting back and forth to practice a highly time-consuming activity. Ben J. Elizondo '88, a co-captain of the men's waterpolo team, says that it became too difficult to keep his responsibilities as captain while living in the Quad...