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...shall return," and Ike Eisenhower, commanding the massed D-day armies or winning his sweeping 1952 election victory. But it is difficult to imagine Beowulf getting only ten nominating votes as Republican candidate for President (which is what happened to MacArthur), or Roland trying to govern with benign passivity (which is what Ike did during much of his White House tenure...
Meanwhile, Ferkauf was negotiating to merge Korvette with Spartans Industries, which makes low-cost clothing, owns 93 discount stores and last year had $226 million in sales. Ferkauf's interest was less in Spartans itself than in its chairman, Charles Bassine, 57, whom he describes as "a benign kind of boss with inspirational qualities and a great organizational reputation." The two men are more than merely old friends. Ferkauf's eldest daughter is engaged to Bassine's son. Ferkauf thinks that Bassine may be just the administrator he has long been looking for-and so, in future...
...from U.N.C.LE. But it is Thailand's endowments that first attack the senses, opulent gifts of nature nurtured by a benign history. In the gentle air and lemony Siamese sunlight, rice, corn and coconut palms flourish, as do 28 kinds of bananas and 750 varieties of orchids. In the north, worker-elephants still pull the great teak logs from the forest with an efficiency no machine yet invented can match; mangoes, sugar and rubber plants thrive in the south. Along the great, glittering emerald rice fields of the fertile, canal-veined central plain where over a third...
...position that once the Pandora's box of chemical and biological weapon is opened, only the most benign will come for the is unrealistic." they said...
...Bird . . . It's a Plane . . . It's SUPERMAN is an amiable mediocrity of a musical, capable only of inspiring benign indifference...