Word: benjamin
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...hiring and college admissions; by the same percentage, the survey's 600 black citizens rejected the notion that race should be the main criterion. Leaders heavily favored abortion, busing to achieve school integration and a ban on school prayer, while large percentages of all blacks opposed those views. Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P., claimed that despite the survey's findings, most leaders were in tune with the sensibilities of the black community. The split indicated in the poll holds true for attitudes toward the man in the White House. Nearly a third of all blacks said they liked...
Exposure to violence is one of the primary causes of tension in American families, noted author and political activist Dr. Benjamin Spock told a subdued Law School Forum crowd yesterday...
Freed by his captors 16 months after he was abducted by terrorists on a Beirut street, the Rev. Benjamin Weir reappeared last week, in church. "I hardly need to say that I'm glad to be here," he told a press conference in Washington's National Presbyterian Church and Center, his wife Carol by his side. As relatives of the six Americans still held hostage in the Middle East watched, the former missionary then delivered a grim message from his erstwhile jailers: unless the Reagan Administration pressures Kuwait to release 17 terrorists convicted of seven bombings in December...
Posing as Benjamin Franklin, Vincent W. Chiang '88, also of Eliot House, decided to go fly a kite. "I liberated it from a tree, and now I'm trying to set it free again," Chiang said...
...resolution states that "the action of Harvard University in withholding the diplomas of Benjamin and Zachary Robinson in retaliation for their acts of peaceful disobedience is to be condemned in this matter of higher moral conscience...