Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...towns; unemployment and underemployment hard by glittering affluence; the infection of black nationalism. Says Melvin Evans, the islands' black Governor: "Our people feel they are losing their home; they feel they'll soon be outnumbered by the people from the north, from the U.S." Adds Leopold E. Benjamin, his black assistant: "There's a lot of young people, especially those who have been in Viet Nam, who want a piece of the action, but feel that whites own everything." To his point, two of the five youths being held for the golf-course massacre are Viet...
...tied in Israel in 1971. Berger, who held dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship, was a law graduate of Columbia University. He had postponed beginning his law practice while he trained for the Olympics. After Munich, Berger intended to marry and enter the Israeli army. His parents. Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin Berger, learned of his death while watching the Games on TV in Shaker Heights. All Ohio state flags were at half-staff last week in his memory...
...black staffers that the Post discriminated against them (TIME, April 10). The next month Bagdikian took part in a symposium in which he defended the Post against accusations of racist coverage. But he also suggested that economic boycotts were the most effective way of influencing newspapers. Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee interpreted this as disloyalty, demanded Bagdikian's resignation, then tore it up after regaining his calm...
...Boudin also dominates because he has built a reputation as one of the best appeals lawyers in the country. And he has recently been doing trial work to help fight the prosecutions of Dr. Benjamin Spock and Philip Berrigan. In the Ellsberg-Russo case, he is thus waging what to him is the third battle of Indochina...
...minute, it would take 217 billion years to exhaust all the variations on the first ten moves. Chess is an endless labyrinth that can both mesmerize and anesthetize. Alone, perhaps, among the games of civilized man, its depths have never been fully plumbed, its possibilities calculated and codified. To Benjamin Franklin it taught "foresight, circumspection, caution and the habit of not being discouraged by our present affairs." For Lenin it was "the gymnasium of the mind," for Einstein a demon "that holds its master in its own bonds, fetters and in some ways shapes his spirit." Said H.G. Wells...