Word: benjamin
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...will be his first visit to Washington since he called on Lyndon Johnson in 1966, and Philippines President Ferdinand E. Marcos is determined that everything will be perfect. He appointed his brother-in-law, Benjamin Romualdez, as Ambassador to Washington expressly to handle the U.S. trip. In recent weeks, Manila's leading corporations and advertising agencies have dispatched their top public relations executives to convince the skeptical U.S. media that Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, who are scheduled to set foot on the White House lawn this week, are just about the best friends that Washington has in Asia...
...boom for personal computers this Christmas season may mean doom for last year's Christmas hit: the video-game machine. Those generally sell for between $125 and $300, but only play games. A small computer has a vast array of other uses. Says Benjamin Rosen, publisher of a widely read industry newsletter: "This is probably the end of the line for straight video games." Arnold Brown, president of the New York consulting firm of Weiner, Edrich, Brown Inc., thinks the game machines could become a consolation prize this Christmas season. Says he: "Some consumers are going to have...
...Charles Burton, 40, returned to England after a threeyear, 35,000-mile trip around the world via the North and South Poles, the Prince hailed their "courage, endurance, will power and sheer bloodymindedness." To the cheers of the 10,000 people who thronged the dockside as their ship, the Benjamin Bowring, sailed up the Thames to Greenwich, Fiennes responded, "Some people would say that we have been lucky, but I would say God has been good...
...sure, Fiennes and Burton had benefited from the largesse of scores of corporations and from technological support that did not exist when Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian explorer, became the first man to travel to the South Pole in 1911. In addition to the Benjamin Bowring, the Transglobe Expedition had at its disposal everything from Land Rovers to a Boston Whaler, from short-wave radios to a satellite navigation system. But it did not take long for the team to discover the limits of these aids. As Fiennes told TIME last week, "If you set out and plan your journey into...
...journey south to rendezvous with the Benjamin Bowring, the expedition almost met with disaster. The ice pack had begun to break up, and the two explorers were forced to wait on an ice floe for 99 days. Despite a series of mishaps and a few brushes with polar bears, they were able to survive until the ship pushed to within seven miles of them. Said Fiennes...