Word: benjamin
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...service have reached such alarming proportions that postal officials in Washington are privately discussing the possibility of an outright financial collapse in a year and a half. One of the bleakest assessments yet of the service's future is contained in a speech this week by Postmaster General Benjamin F. Bailar before the Economic Club of Detroit. Unless drastic changes are made in the way that Americans send and receive their mail, Bailar warned, "we are heading for potential disaster...
...million words, 250,000 words more than in the Bible, the book is both massively silly and regularly entertaining. With its jumbling of serendipitous facts and legends, crackpot theories, gossip and lunacies through the ages, The People's Almanac resembles nothing so much as an inspired collaboration between Benjamin Franklin and Rona Barrett. Paul Gray...
...another chapter to John Kennedy's lengthening Lothario legend. The central figure this time is Mary Pinchot Meyer, an attractive, well-connected Washington artist who was the sister-in-law of Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee. As former Post Vice President James Truitt recently told the National Enquirer, Kennedy's liaison with Meyer while he was President lasted nearly two years and even included some pot smoking in the White House bedroom. "She was not the kind of person to get into a dalliance," insists one old friend of the Meyer family. "This wasn't some...
...Benjamin H. Brown, advisor to the Fellows of the CFIA, said yesterday he received a "courteous" letter of apology from Crocker P. Snow after Brown and Edward R.F. Sheehan, another CFIA member, sent letters to the Globe protesting Snow's actions...
Most of these reactions, whether stated eloquently by Bickel or in the spirit of alarmism by authors Benjamin Epstein and Arnold Forster, were still gut reactions based on the future implications of affirmative action. And because they were acts of outrage rather than attacks based on empirical data, they have been easily parried. The best recent counter-argument to those extolling meritocracy appeared in the briefs supporting the University of Washington against Marco DeFunis in 1974. Many briefs contended that very few hiring and admissions decisions are based solely on merit--and that race could play just as much...