Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than 10,000 Angelenos gathered during the day at Cheviot Hills Recreation Center to hear the thoughts of such speakers as Cassius Clay and Benjamin Spock ("I hate Johnson as much as anyone here...
...Benjamin Tappan, Ohio Democrat, who in 1844 smuggled to the old New York Evening Post a copy of the treaty of annexation with the Republic of Texas while the document was still considered confidential...
...Philadelphia, 1,500 subway riders stumbled through darkness from their stalled trains beneath the city where Benjamin Franklin started it all by attracting a bolt of lightning with kite and key. In Menlo Park, N.J., on the spot where Thomas Alva Edison invented the light bulb, an "eternal light" winked out for an instant before an emergency generator restored its glow...
Also honored with LL.D's were Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, Joseph C. Wilson, Chairman of the Xerox Corporation and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Rochester University; Herbert Wechsler, Professor of Constitutional Law at Columbia and Director of the American Law Institute; and Benjamin E. Mays, the retiring President of Morehouse College in Atlanta...
Despite an array of sympathetic doctors called to support Levy, including Dr. Benjamin Spock, the antiwar baby doctor, the military tribunal remained unconvinced. Ruled Presiding Law Officer Colonel Earl V. Brown: Levy was "not justified in disobeying the order on grounds that it was contrary to his medical judgments or ethical beliefs." With that, Levy's case collapsed. The jury deliberated nearly six hours before arriving at its verdict...