Word: benjamin
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Despite Reider's effort, the varsity finished a disappointing 12th, as Michigan State romped to victory. Dave Norris, the second Crimson finisher, placed 35th; Jim Schlaeppi, 89th; Dyke Benjamin, 104th, and Dick Wharton 137th...
...Chicago's boodling, buccaneering Democratic machine, the idea of a reformer as state's attorney (county prosecutor) has long been unthinkable. Last week the unthinkable happened: Benjamin S. Adamowski, a onetime Democrat who turned Republican in protest against the machine's wide-open rule, was elected Cook County state's attorney, with his own detective force, the power of subpoena-and the personal ability and determination to give the organization some days it will never forget. In an election that saw Republicans carry Cook County for Eisenhower, for U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen and nearly all county...
Although the team will miss the services of Ralph Perry, senior John Read could fill in the gap, as the rugged five-mile course is made for him. Either Dyke Benjamin or Bill Thompson will be the seventh starter for the varsity...
...Benjamin Spock, author of the bestselling (9,000,000 copies) The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, and a co-chairman of the recently formed National Committee of Physicians and Surgeons for Stevenson, declared that a "high proportion" of psychiatrists are also Democrats, but "their hands are tied" in telling the public. Reason: the disclosure would "disturb their Republican patients and interfere with the healing process...
...Dozen Stars. Taylor's plan involved putting a full two years of college on TV. With School Superintendent Benjamin Willis, he decided to work through the city's four junior colleges, whose teachers would start out by giving four freshman courses over WTTW, which is owned by the nonprofit Chicago Educational Association. Viewers could take one course or all four, could work for credit (and an Associate of Arts degree) or merely audit. The response was greater than even the most optimistic officials anticipated. When the nation's first TV college began this fall...