Word: benjamin
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...They effectively puncture those fallacious notions that the Negro somehow has not got what it takes "to make it." In fact, the successful Negro more often than not must have more of what it takes than the white who achieves an equal degree of success. Air Force Major General Benjamin O. Davis Jr., spent most of his four years at West Point as the only Negro there, often felt that he was spoken to only when someone was barking a command. Chicago Dermatologist Theodore Lawless fought off subtle rebuffs while an instructor at Northwestern University. When his hand...
...debt was taken on by families with incomes of more than $10,000-a group that usually has relatively less debt and is well able to pay. "I don't believe the public has any concern whatever about how much money it owes," says President Benjamin Gordon of San Francisco's White House department store. "Nor do I have any concern for the health of our accounts...
...Benjamin Britten began the celebration of his 50th birthday by conducting the London Symphony last September in a concert dedicated to himself. He took the podium again last week to honor his birthday with a performance of his War Requiem at London's Royal Festival Hall. Having given English critics the entire autumn to contemplate the significance of a birthday that in fact occurred in late November, Britten found himself still best described by two praiseful paradoxes. Though he has gained immensely in intellectual force over the years, he has lost none of his youthful high spirits and originality...
...Benjamin Britten: War Requiem (London). Britten conducts the Bach and Highgate school choirs and the London Symphony Orchestra (Vishnevskaya, Pears and Fischer-Dieskau, soloists) in a reverent performance...
...Stuart Hughes, professor of History and a candidate last fall for the U.S. Senate, has been named co-chairman of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, a SANE spokesman announced yesterday. His appointment, along with that of Dr. Benjamin Spock, the pediatrician, was confirmed in New York by the peace group's executive board...