Word: benjamin
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...TIME correspondents covering the election across the country last week, the campaigns and the moments of victory or defeat produced some vivid impressions that will stay fresh years from now when they look back on Nov. 7, 1978. Midwest Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate, for example, followed Illinois Senator Charles Percy throughout his come-from-behind re-election battle, and witnessed an extraordinary victory speech. Reports Cate: "Wan and misty-eyed, Percy could not control the trembling of his hands as he read his statement. The tough race had humbled a normally proud man." After Philadelphians defeated a proposal that would...
...strong China, secure form foreign attack, that can supply needed resources such as oil, is in the U.S.'s best interests." Benjamin Huberman, senior advisor for technological affairs to the assistant to the President on national security, said yesterday...
...Food Services currently has a policy of purchasing if the price is right--products manufactured by Stouffer Foods and Libby, McNeill and Libby, both subsidiaries of Nestle, Benjamin H. Walcott, assistant director of Food Services, said this week...
...shipyard. "I don't care about the money at all. I have put that shipyard up my nose ten times over." In cocaine, of course--Chet is what Raymond Chandler used to call a cokey, and Panama's prose comes to you through the paranoid fog of a rolled Benjamin Franklin...
Council members expressed moderate optimism about the economy, noting that a joint study by their economists forecasts that it will show real growth next year of about 3%-not great but far above recession levels. The business leaders were also encouraged by the voter uprising against Government spending. Said Benjamin Biaggini, chairman of the Southern Pacific Co.: "Proposition 13 is the greatest thing since ice cream." Du Pont Chairman Irving Shapiro exulted that "the public is again captain of the ship. For the first time we're in a posture to get a good economic policy because the public...