Word: ben
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...bother the Cup's defenders, however. When the breezes were lightest, in the fourth race, the winning boat was Australia II, the winged-keel victor at Newport. When the Doctor was in, the honors went to Australia III, a boat specifically designed for Fremantle's heavy weather by Ben Lexcen (who also designed Australia II). Skippered by Colin Beashel, Australia III finished ahead of the pack in three of the first six races, building such a lead that the championship was won even before it was over. For the seventh and final race, the Australian tacticians were content to assess...
Round and round paddles William Snow (Ben Kingsley). He lives in a boardinghouse and works as a bookstore clerk, having dropped out of marriage and more exciting forms of commerce. Asked if he was a good father to his daughters, he replies, "They thought so. Of course, they were very young then...
Jerusalem Bureau Chief Roland Flamini, who covered Shcharansky's joyful arrival at Ben Gurion Airport, was struck by his subject's aplomb and good humor. "With his command of the situation," says Flamini, "it seemed clear that Shcharansky was going to remain a newsmaker." Associate Editor Patricia Blake, who has written dozens of stories on Soviet dissidents and their struggle for human rights, including cover stories on Nobel Prizewinner Andrei Sakharov and Shcharansky himself, was pressed into service. Blake flew from New York to Jerusalem, where she succeeded in gaining one of the first exclusive interviews with Shcharansky. "I placed...
Waiting along with Peres to welcome Shcharansky at Ben Gurion Airport were a number of Cabinet ministers and politicians, together with the country's two Chief Rabbis. As the plane came to a halt and the door opened, a tall man carrying a shopping bag stepped inside. It was Mikhail Stiglitz, Avital's brother, who is an Israeli army officer. The pilot had radioed ahead that Shcharansky, who was released from the labor camp in a threadbare suit of clothes, badly needed a pair of pants and a belt to hold them up. While the crowd waited, Shcharansky changed into...
...while, Ponder furiously searched for money. His pitch was that he would run Fisk as a business, in the black. In time he got local banks, corporations and his alumni association on the bandwagon, as well as a deeply concerned Nashville businessman, Ben Rechter, whose support at last look came to half a million dollars. At the beginning of 1986 the debt was down to $890,000. Ponder pledges that it will be erased by commencement this spring...