Word: benjamin
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...United Artists merged with Transamerica, which was built by John R. Beckett, a former investment banker. Krim, now 67, and his longtime colleague Robert Benjamin, 68, U.A.'s finance committee chairman., are among Transamerica's biggest shareholders, with a total of 505,000 shares, worth about $7 million. But when Pleskow suddenly quit, Krim and Benjamin decided to follow. Last week others joined the exodus, among them Senior Vice President for Production Mike Medavoy, 37, who is considered tops at measuring popular tastes and making money-spinning deals...
Krim cited a history of friction between the freewheeling movie firm and the textbook-style conglomerate. "This is one business that is really different," he said. Krim and Benjamin, both New York lawyers, acquired the business in 1951 from Charles Chaplin and Mary Pickford, who helped start the firm as a place that would allow independent film makers to work without the restrictions imposed by major studios. Run from a dingy Manhattan headquarters, U.A. has no production facilities, but operates in effect as a banker and distributor for movie people seeking an honest count at the box office and exceptional...
...diversity masks its educational obligation, for the concept of diversity is only as neutral as it is fashionable to be neutral. As Bob Young points out, people are seeing blacks under every bed. Today, minorities are not only unfashionable, apparently they are politically expendable as well. --Louis E. Benjamin...
...Washington press conference last week, the President said that he had discussed the report with N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Benjamin Hooks; Carter admitted that he was "surprised" by the energy statement and that he disagreed "strongly" with its conclusions. Other pro-industry manifestoes may soon be issued by the N.A.A.C.P., whose top leaders concede that they have lost some of their old faith in Government as the primary catalyst for affirmative action. Says Denton Watson, the organization's acting public relations director: "The oldtime civil rights coalition is no longer useful for blacks. Our old liberal friends are more concerned...
...wife Imelda, the governor of Manila, have been amassing huge fortunes. Their blatant influence peddling has prompted one amazed diplomat in Manila to observe: "It's incredible what they've taken over." Marcos' sister Elizabeth Marcos Keon, for example, is governor of Ilocos Norte province, and Benjamin ("Kokoy") Romualdez, Imelda's brother, who owns the Times Journal, one of the capital's major dailies, is governor of Leyte province and heads the League of Provincial Governors and City Mayors. Roberto Benedicto, a frequent Marcos golfing partner, has acquired three television stations since martial...