Word: benjamin
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...down in the preferential polls that he is not even listed. Less than 40% of the electorate know who he is-a statistic that nevertheless gives him some comfort. "A year ago, only 3% recognized my name," he says. "I consider that progress." His chief political adviser, Benjamin Palumbo, thought that was not sufficient progress. He urged Bentsen to speed up his campaign and try to become the front runner. Bentsen seemed to vacillate for a while and then resumed his deliberate pace. Palumbo quit the campaign this month. Says a politician who knows both men: "Ben is a crapshooter...
...must operate as a public service, so postal authorities regard themselves as being obliged to continue performing many uneconomic operations, such as delivering mail door-to-door instead of at a central pickup point. Yet the law also insists that the Postal Service attempt to be selfsupporting. Postmaster General Benjamin F. Bailar is urging Congress to undertake a study to determine whether the U.S.P.S. needs an increase in the $920 million federal subsidy it now gets, the so-called public service payment. To hold down deficits and head off rate increases in the years ahead, Bailar also wants Congress...
...chore of ordering helmets for bureau staffers." Then Burton, Correspondent David Wood and bureau stringers spread out to cover the trouble spots as well as the schools where desegregation has proceeded calmly and successfully. TIME correspondents in Boston did not have to use the helmets, but Chicago Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate, Correspondent Richard Woodbury and Photographer James De Free all encountered overt hostility in Louisville: when a group of angry citizens recognized Woodbury as a reporter, they tried to run his car off a back road with their pickup truck; De Free was the target of a bottle-throwing demonstrator...
TIME'S Chicago bureau chief, Benjamin Gate, recently monitored highways in his area with a rented 4-watt set. He reports: "Motorists have discovered that instead of being isolated in a car, listening to some dreary radio station, CB helps them stay alert and puts them in touch with scores of other drivers. A typical transmission we picked up in Illinois went like this: 'Breaker 10 [the emergency frequency], this is Buffalo Bill in an 18-wheeler rolling by Mile 78 on 1-90 North. Got an overturned camper here, lots of smokeys [police] in the area...
America is a land of upward mobility--we've all heard that since grade school. Every boy can grow up to be president, and Benjamin Lassiter rose from poor immigrant to power mogul in Boston. But if Lassiter were really as nice and paternal as Beacon Hill's scriptwriters would have us believe--the gently father saving his daughter's name or genially sponsoring a young boy as ambitious as he himself once was--it's hard to see how he could have made as much money as he is supposed to have. Nice people don't get rich...