Word: benjamin
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While Jaworski was talking tough in Washington, the Korean government was stonewalling a visiting team of U.S. law enforcement officials in Seoul. Assistant Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti and two associates sought a way to question Tongsun Park, Korea's Washington host with the most, who fled the U.S. before a federal grand jury indicted him on 36 violations of federal statutes, including bribery and fraud. After almost 30 hours of wrangling, during which the Koreans insisted they alone should control the interrogation of Park, the U.S. delegation returned home exhausted, frustrated and emptyhanded...
...Arthur Bernon Tourtellot, 64, vice president and general executive of CBS and noted historian; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Tourtellot served as associate producer of The March of Time films and adapted General Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe for a TV series. He was the author of Benjamin Franklin: The Shaping of Genius, and William Diamond's Drum, The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution-a widely praised account of the Battle of Lexington and Concord-and other popular histories...
...hands of Rostropovich, the renaissance flowered. New works were written for him by Benjamin Britten, Lukas Foss, Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev. In the Soviet Union alone, innumerable compositions were dedicated to him. This burgeoning literature, as well as the example of Rostropovich himself, has encouraged a new generation of fine young cellists, who have moved from deep inside the orchestra to center stage...
...BENJAMIN CALKINS...
...Dayan's orders, the luncheon was closed to the press. Some reporters tried to listen through cracks in the door, but they were quickly ushered away. TIME'S Chicago bureau chief Benjamin Cate managed to slip into the Blue Max Room's projection booth, from which he heard most of Dayan's 20-minute pep rally before being spotted by an Israeli security man and shooed away. Cate reported that the Dayan behind closed doors was much more the hard-nosed warrior than the cautious diplomat. His message was clear and tough, and he had some...