Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asked one startled Montana resident.) Ms. Editor Gloria Steinem turned taxi-dancer for one $65 song; off to the side, Washington Post Watergate Reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward sold phony spy disguises. In the kissing booth, Veteran Socialite Barbara Howar demonstrated her wares to Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee. The occasion: the second annual Counter Gridiron dinner, held to raise money for a journalists' legal-defense fund and the hackles of Washington's venerable, mostly male Gridiron Club. While Treasury Secretary William Simon and Economic Adviser Alan Greenspan dueled with water guns, dart throwers popped balloons...
Last week Reagan excoriated the press for being irresponsible in its revelation of the CIA operation. But most newsmen side with the Rosenthal "case by case" approach. Explains Benjamin C. Bradlee, executive editor of the Washington Post...
Anderson's colleagues may have seriously doubted Colby's truthfulness, of course, but they took his word about the importance of the salvage operation. A schizophrenic attitude? Yes--and best expressed on the morning of publication by Benjamin Bradlee '43, executive editor of The Post: "I do not today know whether it's true or false that the national interest was harmed with the publication this morning. The only place where you could get that information is the CIA and I'm not sure I'd believe them anyway...
...study conducted for the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke now questions whether so long a wait is necessary. Dr. Benjamin Boshes, chairman of the department of neurology at Northwestern University and spokesman for the study group, says that a patient whose brain shows no activity for at least 30 minutes is "as dead as he ever will be." As a result, Boshes and his colleagues are proposing a new definition of death...
...Hare Krishna people. Between her gargoyle book ends, this vegetarian convert presents a series of case histories. Each serves to dispel the notion that vegetable dieters are as alike as peas in a pod. Here is the early Christian theologian-and heretic-Origen, who castrated himself, and the American Benjamin Franklin, who did not. Here is Pythagoras, who denounced beans, and Horace Greeley, who renounced coffee. Here are the diverse saints and satans of human history: Gandhi and Hitler, Leonardo da Vinci and Martin Bormann, Albert Schweitzer and Richard Wagner. In The Vegetable Passion, such celebrities are always less notable...