Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Publicity Stunt? The would-be assassin, police soon learned, was not a Filipino but a Bolivian painter, Benjamin Mendoza y Amor, 35, who had lived in Argentina, the U.S., Japan, Hong Kong and the Philippines since leaving La Paz in 1962. He wanted to kill the Pope, he claimed, "to save the people from hypocrisy and superstition." In an interview the next day, Mendoza said that he had first formed the idea of assassinating the Pope "a long time ago," and would try again if he were free. Filipino acquaintances agreed that Mendoza was "a frustrated artist." A New York...
...Street's studio is modestan old movie theater on Manhattan's upper Broadwaythe budget is an impressive $28,000 per show. Yet because of its wide popularity, the switched-on school reaches its audience at a cost of about a penny per child; "a bargain," says Dr. Benjamin Spock, "if I ever...
...counselor to parents in Baby and Child Care, Dr. Benjamin Spock won the devotion of a generation of child-raisers. As antiwar activist, he lost many of his mature admirers but gained hordes of young worshipers. Now, as adviser to adolescents in A Teenager's Guide to Life and Love (Simon & Schuster; $4.95), Dr. Spock advocates many of the old virtues and expresses views that he admits may be derided by the young...
...Curtis, points out that the Post still gets so much mail that three employees are needed to take care of it; he believes that it "never really died in the minds of the public." The new-old Post, he says, "will be a patriotic magazine, as I consider Benjamin Franklin* to have been a patriot. We will advocate change by evolution...
...CFIA has held joint seminars with the Center for International Studies, an M.I.T. Social Science Research center, which is funded by the OIA on a permanent basis. Further insight into the nature of government for the Center is given in a 1967 letter, liberated from University Hall, from Benjamin Brown to Dean Franklin Ford. Speaking of a proposed series of meetings on international security, Brown noted, "We have informally discussed the project with officers of the State Department and Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, who agree as to its importance. There is every indication that ACDA would be prepared...