Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...programs, that no one ever thinks to question one of the more shocking horror stories of the Viet Nam war: that thou sands of Vietnamese children have been savagely burned by U.S. napalm. Only last week a CBS-TV program on the war showed a supposed victim. Dr. Benjamin Spock has not only made the accusation in print; he has also helped form a "Committee of Responsibility to Save Vietnamese Children." The trou ble with the story, says New York Times Medical Columnist Dr. Howard Rusk, is that it is not true. Reporting from Saigon last week after a painstaking...
...Britain's political pantheon stands one statue raffishly askew, absurd finger-curls atop a drooping, oversized head, a sardonic smile on its decidedly un-English face. Benjamin Disraeli was as unlikely a Prime Minister as England ever had, as prodigal a son as the mother of parliaments ever spawned. During nearly 40 years of Tory leadership, he was hated with rare passion by his enemies, notably Liberal Leader William Gladstone, and often only barely trusted by his own lieutenants. Intrigued more by power than principle, too cynically clever by half in an age craving sober dignity in its statesmen...
Survival Factor. The best but not necessarily the most truthful. "Throughout his life," Blake warns, "Benjamin Disraeli was addicted to romance and care less about facts." He was invariably the hero of his own self-created myth, and because he could write all his contem poraries under the table, his version of events tended to survive longer than anyone else's. The famous, ponderous six-volume biography by Moneypenny and Buckle, published in 1920, often fell prey to this charm beyond the grave. It also abetted the myth-later given its crudest expression in the George Arliss film...
...math study, conducted by the International Project for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement with the help of UNESCO, was easily the most massive comparative study of schools ever undertaken. The researchers, who included a five-man U.S. team headed by Education Professor Benjamin Bloom of the University of Chicago, carefully framed questions so that they would not favor the students of any one nation. The tests were given to 132,775 students in 5,348 schools during...
...Benjamin Thompson, on the other hand, became Lord Rumford (the name was derived from Rumford, N.H., which later became the city of Concord) who did significant work in the field of heat and the caloric theory. This derived from his experiences in the armory of Bavaria where he noted that the boring of cannons in water raised the temperature of the water...