Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operation. Dulles, by frequently putting the secretarial ear to the ground at various points on the globe, combines the benefits of localized U.S. embassy reports with his own understanding of the global situation. And at age 66 he has made a discovery that Grandfather John Watson Foster (President Benjamin Harrison's Secretary of State) would find hard to believe: a modern-day Secretary of State has more time for undisturbed thought and concentration aloft in an airplane than he has in his paneled, guarded office in Foggy Bottom...
...Contemporary Music, which used to play host to such startling modern operas as Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress and Dmitry Shostakovich's The Lady Macbeth of Mzensk, last week unveiled a collaboration between two chilly and notably elegant talents: Britain's Composer Benjamin Britten and America's late, great Author Henry James. The work: Britten's opera version of The Turn of the Screw...
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...Gustavus Hinrichs of Copenhagen, dismissed as head of the School of Science because of his "hasty, angry conduct," caused a major scandal by bombarding the legislature with pamphlets attacking the university (Corruption in the University of Darkest America, Rotten to the Core, Stop That Leak!). But S.U.I. survived. Historian Benjamin Shambaugh helped make the entire state history-conscious; Paleontologist Samuel Calvin became the ranking U.S. authority on the Pleistocene age of North America; bearded Thomas H. Macbride became the "Father of Iowa Conservation"; and Geologist Bohumil Shimek won international fame for his theory on the origin of loess (loam) fossils...
...steel industry, which has been operating at scarcely better than two-thirds of capacity, combined earnings of 30 companies were just 14% under a year ago. U.S. Steel's second-quarter net was down 11.9% to $49 million. But Chairman Benjamin F. Fairless predicted that demand for steel would pick up late this month or in September. Chicago's Inland Steel, which concentrates on basic steels rather than high-cost alloys, announced alltime highs in second-quarter production (102.6% of capacity) and first-half earnings ($19.4 million). Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Eugene G. Grace also reported profits...