Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program presented readings describing King's life, including comments from his wife, Coretta Scott King, and Benjamin E. Mays, former president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., King's alma mater. The presentation also included a recording of King's 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech...
...Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Benjamin Altman has delivered the bottom line. He has ruled that the buttocks can henceforth be considered private parts in New York State, and that fanny fondling is indeed sexual abuse. Said the judge: "If the alleged occurrence had in fact taken place in an area where the social mores condone the unconsented touching or pinching of the buttocks (rumor has it that Italy may be such an area), perhaps the defendant's position could be sustained. However, here the touching of a woman's buttocks without her consent is not treated so cavalierly...
What happened, Flynt told TIME Chicago Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate, was that he had found God at 40,000 ft.-in a chartered jet somewhere between Denver and Houston. "It was powerful and awesome," says Flynt of the experience. "There I was, representing the pits of what is wrong in our society, and it happened. I'm not ashamed to say that I cried for God." At first, Flynt's wife Althea was also emotional over his conversion, for another reason. "The Lord may have entered your life," she told him, "but $20 million just walked...
After Helms agreed to cop the plea and all details were worked out, the Justice Department whisked him into the federal courtroom of Judge Barrington D. Parker in Washington without notice. Assistant Attorney General Benjamin R. Civiletti presented a three-page "statement of facts" to which Helms had agreed...
...Helms plea bargain back on July 25 in an Oval Office meeting with Carter and assorted high-level administration officials. This statement is directly at odds with Carter's late September assertion that his knowledge of the case was confined to press reports he had scanned. And Benjamin Civiletti, the head of the Criminal Division in Justice, who figured prominently in the negotiations with Helms and his attorney, disclosed that, in yet another unorthodox step, Justice had actually initiated the backroom talks with the former CIA chief, hoping to reach the very arrangement they announced last week...