Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lewis Font, a Vietnam veteran, told the crowd that Dr. Benjamin Spock and other anti-war activists had been arrested in Boston ten years ago for "counseling, aiding and abetting" students to resist the draft...
...candidates." He caught one with little time to spare, Republican Senator Larry Pressler of South Dakota. Says Stacks: "I managed to finish reporting a story on his hopeless and misguided presidential candidacy only two weeks before he dropped out." If some candidates are misguided, observes Midwest Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate, others are astonishingly absentminded. Gate escorted Republican Candidate John Anderson to a TIME editors' lunch in New York City. "Anderson rushed into the lobby of the Time-Life Building looking a mite perturbed," he recalls. "He came up to me and asked for $10, explaining, 'My bags...
...short of stories. But last week, with the embargo of Soviet grain sales sending shock waves through the Great Plains and a herd of presidential hopefuls campaigning in Iowa before the state's party caucuses, the bureau's correspondents found their list of assignments unusually heavy. Says Benjamin Cate, who has been Midwest's chief since 1975: "It was our busiest week with breaking stories since our cover on the Big Freeze of the winter of 1977. And it was just as frantic and even more complicated than any election-week reporting...
...Benjamin I. Schwartz, Williams Professor of History and Political Science, was not impressed with North Korea's offer. "My first inclination is not to overplay it. The proposal could simply be a reaction to the current political and economic instability in South Korea, a move calculated to create further instability...
...Harvard Jewish Law Students Association (HJLSA) sent a telegram last Thursday to President Carter, Attorney General Benjamin R. Civiletti, and House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill (D-Mass.), protesting the reassignment of Justice Department Nazi war-crimes investigator Martin Mendelsohn...