Word: bennett
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That, at least, is a mistake Bennett Kremen, a New York journalist who a couple of years ago had become, he says, "uncertain of what America had become," avoided. Kremen took off for a few months in search of the real America, having decided beforehand that "to pass through the country like a tourist with a tape recorder and a journalist's notebook would simply prove worthless." Instead, Kremen went hitchhiking around, spending a few weeks as a factory worker, a few in college towns, a stint in the South and a time living with blacks. His intentions were purely...
...they envision chaos in an open market. "If we do what the players want," says Pittsburgh Steeler Owner Dan Rooney, "500 to 800 guys would change teams every year. What happens to fan loyalty?" Others worry about competitive balance. "The rich teams would dominate," says Washington Redskins President Edward Bennett Williams. "You can't run a competitive league that...
Hunt had still another CIA connection. Upon retiring from the agency, he went to work for Robert R. Mullen & Co., a Washington public relations firm that once served as a CIA cover in addition to its regular commercial jobs. Working with Mullen President Robert Bennett, Hunt conducted an investigation of Senator Edward Kennedy's accident at Chappaquiddick, persuaded Lobbyist Dita Beard to issue a statement intended to clear the Nixon Administration of any impropriety in its dealing with ITT, and estimated the cost of a wiretap of Author Clifford Irving on behalf of Howard Hughes. CIA officials denied...
...Bennett Johnston Jr., 42, a conservative Democrat from northern Louisiana, began his climb in his state's house of representatives a decade ago. Though he failed to win the Democratic nomination for Governor in 1971, the following year he captured the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Allen Ellender. A racial moderate, Johnston is an exceptionally effective television candidate. He has co-sponsored an extension of national wage-price controls and, for his oil-rich home state, has proposed building a port for supertankers...
...company would be allowed to sit on the board of directors of "any corporation in which there is any possibility that Harvard might invest." This was a move long-awaited by students and one that was necessary to ensure that Cabot does not find himself in the position that Bennett encountered many times:deciding where his stronger loyalties be. Putnam has said all along that none of the Putnam family's financial companies will handle Harvard money for the same reason...