Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Canada's Premier, the proud parent of month-old Justin Trudeau, was given a copy of Dr. Benjamin Spock's Baby and Child Care. "Very interesting," said Pierre Trudeau. "I knew he was an antiwar leader, but I never realized he knew anything about babies...
...footage compiled by Producers Burton Benjamin and Robert Chandler and Correspondent David Schoumacher added up to an implicit indictment of governmental agencies in general for their spying on citizens. But in accordance with strict new guidelines laid down by the network after the Pentagon episode, the producers took pains to avoid misleading editing...
...Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee, Kissinger's remarks amounted to an Administration policy pronouncement and in the public interest required attribution. He ordered Reporter Stanley Karnow to identify Kissinger by name. Declared Bradlee: "We have engaged in this deception and done this disservice to the reader long enough...
There is indeed something solemnly institutional about Eiseley, the Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and the History of Science and Curator of Early Man at the University of Pennsylvania. Perhaps only someone with such an array of titles would drift into such rhetoric as "the frail confines of the human heart," and then, on the same page, "the windswept uplands of the human mind...
...poor. Even so, the number of black and Puerto Rican undergraduates enrolled full time in the-? university increased from 14% in 1969 to 23% this year. If nothing else, Open Admissions helped lift morale in the high schools whose failures made the program necessary in the first place. At Benjamin Franklin High in East Harlem two years ago only 10% of the seniors bothered to apply to CUNY, and only 1% were accepted. This year, as the students discovered that they stood a real chance of getting to college, 76% applied...