Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinese must have agreed informally not to be aggressive towards Taiwan, Benjamin I, Schwartz '38, Williams Professor of History and Political Science, said yesterday...
...best of the bargain. Said Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers, fresh from spending two weeks in mainland China: "It made me wonder how much the President left on the negotiating table." Probably nothing, in the view of several Asian scholars. "We could have held out," said Harvard's Benjamin Schwartz, "but I doubt that China would ever openly say that it was going to assure the security of Taiwan...
There have always been film biographies, of course. Al Jolson's story was done twice while he was still alive, and there have been movies about famous folk like Madame Curie and Benjamin Disraeli. But the voracious appetite for real subjects, particularly on TV, is new, and so is the tendency to tell all without waiting until what was once considered a decent interval has elapsed. "It has to do with people's fascination with public figures," reasons William McCutchen, producer of ABC's Eisenhower TV-movie. "Despite all the tremendously creative ideas that come...
...Post's South American correspondent who had escaped from the Port Kai-tuma ambush with a superficial bullet wound, managed to join the pool of reporters that returned to the Jonestown site with Guyanese authorities. He was filing from his hotel room in Georgetown when Post Executive Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee recalled him to Washington. There Krause holed up in a suite at the Madison Hotel and began working. "It was sort of like Georgetown," Krause recalled. "I was being held captive." At first dictating his recollections and later doing his own typing, Krause assembled his account in five...
Aldo A. Badini '80 and Scott H. Mittman '79, who were riding the Leverett House G-tower elevator when the power went out, found the blackout a rather disconcerting experience. While Badini and Mittman succeeded in prying open the inner doors of the elevator, Benjamin A. Berman '79 unsuccessfully tried to open its outer doors. The two were caught in the elevator until the power resumed...