Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...filed, Joel Kline, a Maryland land speculator, testified that he had paid $25,000 to a loan officer at New York City's Bankers Trust Corp. in exchange for securing lines of credit. The following day the bank revealed that last November it had asked an officer, Stephen Benjamin, to resign for dealings with Kline. The land speculator, who bribed a number of Maryland state officials while Spiro Agnew was Governor, reportedly gave testimony that led to Agnew's resignation as Vice President...
...fumbled tournament that cost him a grand master's rating. Lessing has wittily recalled a misspent youth in one of Manhattan's less salubrious chess-and coffeehouses. The authors have also taken care to make the historical sections pert and amusing. "Can you forgive me this indiscretion?" Benjamin Franklin writes to a wealthy Frenchwoman. "Never hereafter shall I consent to begin a game [of chess] in your bathroom...
...Unfortunately, the people who made Love at the Top have not demonstrated the same critical wisdom as Fabré's prospective publishers. They are swept away by the power of such insights as material success corrupts; bedfellows make strange politics; and cash calms many qualms. Director Michel Deville (Benjamin) preaches his simplistic, satiric sermon with the help of a number of attractive women (Romy Schneider, Florinda Bolkan, Miss Birkin), who lend the movie a certain substance by getting undressed as often as possible. Jay Cocks
...money crunch. As one agent says: "Travel to Europe is dead, but dead-killed by the high cost of European jaunts." At Winer's agency, 60% of all bookings in the past month have been to the Caribbean-at an average cost per couple of $1,000. Jack Benjamin, a salesman in the languishing retail-garment trade, recently took his wife for a week at the Club Mediterranee in Martinique-a trip that set them back $1,400. Now they have paid for a return visit to the same resort in March. When Harry Lack, a district court judge...
...celebrated Americans were at home abroad last week, just as they had been two centuries before. An exhibition commemorating Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson opened in Paris, where both men had served their young nation so well and had grown to admire their hosts. "A most amiable nation to live with" was the way Franklin described the French; and Jefferson wrote that they "love us more, I think, than they do any nation on earth...