Word: ben
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...first controversy involved the radical keel of the leading foreign challenger, Australia II. The brainchild of ebullient Australian Designer Ben Lexcen, the keel has provided Newport with gossip, speculation and creative chicanery all summer. Swathed in blue-green skirts whenever Australia II is out of the water, the supersecret keel has been the target of camera-wielding scuba divers from rival camps. One local cartoon lampooned the mysterious keel by depicting it in the shape of a bottle of Swan Lager, a major corporate backer of the Australia II effort...
...Queen, the Cheshire cat and several other figures, Alison Taylor stands out with a resounding, jazz-style voice, as does Belle-Linda Halpern's mezzo-soprano voice throughout her different personifications. Though Halpern and Taylor have the most refined and talented voices, the others--Ben Cobb, Linus Gelber, Maud Winchester and Susan Glassman--belt out their parts clearly and loudly...
...they would also investigate other possibilities-equally without proof: the masked gunmen were Muslim fundamentalists or members of the Palestine Liberation Organization, who might have attacked the college to embarrass Israel and exacerbate Arab-Jewish tensions. Prime Minister Menachem Begin termed the attack a "loathsome crime." Brigadier General Benyamin Ben-Eliezer, coordinator of Israeli operations in the occupied territories, declared, "We will spare no effort and do whatever has to be done in order to find the murderers...
...Ben Bradlee, now the executive editor of the Washington Post, had been a Georgetown neighbor and particular chum of Kennedy's. Working then for Newsweek, he would sometimes be asked by his editors to find out for competitive reasons whose face would be on the cover of TIME the following week. Bradlee would ask the President, who would find out and call back. Bradlee got one exclusive story about Kennedy's past personal life, involving a false report of an earlier J.F.K. marriage, when the President agreed to let Bradlee secretly examine for 24 hours...
...associate managing editor of the Harvard Crimson. Mary Anne Golon, a University of Florida journalism major who has taken photographs for Florida papers, is working in the photography department. William Guest of Yale is a history major who has contributed a weekly editorial to the Yale Daily News, and Ben Spier, a Russian language and literature major at Amherst, has written theater and movie reviews for the Amherst Student. Spier and Guest will rotate between researching, reporting and writing...