Word: benning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first three games, with tailback Joe Holland totalling 369 yards overland for a 5.5 yard average and four touchdowns....Trivia fans will duly note the name of Cornell's second-string fullback for tomorrow's contest: Dick Clasby, Jr. Clasby, number two on Cornell's depth chart behind Ben Tenuta after missing two games with a hip pointer, is the son of ex-Harvard grid star Dick Clasby, Sr. '55. Dick's older brother, Mike, is a senior in Eliot House...
...which they regard as an organic part of biblical Eretz Israel (the Land of Israel). At the same time, however, tens of thousands of "Peace Now" demonstrators crowded downtown Tel Aviv protesting Begin's intransigence on the occupied territories. Said one of the movement's founders, Yossi Ben-Artzi: "This is a historic chance to achieve peace; it comes perhaps once in a generation...
...village of Miserey, 50 miles west of Paris. By then, hundreds of cars had roared onto the scene, and villagers were sprinting to welcome the trio of adventurers. As they arrived, the Americans popped the cork from a bottle of champagne and began toasting their feat and each other. Ben Abruzzo, 48, Max Anderson, 44, and Larry Newman, 31, all from Albuquerque, had just completed a historic first crossing of the Atlantic by balloon, making the 3,100-mile trip from Presque Isle, Me., to Miserey in 5 days, 17hr...
...thinks to do this before the cameras turn, when it is ever so much cheaper, is one of Hollywood's enduring mysteries), since many scenes have nothing much to do with one another. The most egregious error of this sort concerns a geratic triangle involving Olivia de Havilland, Ben Johnson and Fred MacMurray that has no relation to the insect world. Then, too, one wonders about Michael Caine, the entomologist leading the fight against the winged villains. His lines suggest that there is more to his involvement with the bees than scientific concern, but we never find out what...
...DIED. Ben Moreell, 85, retired Four-Star Admiral who created and commanded the Navy's World War II Seabee units; of cancer; in Pittsburgh. Seeing a need for wartime construction crews that could fend off attack, Moreell recruited a new corps of gun-toting workers he called the Seabees, for CBs, or Construction Battalions. He directed their $10 billion fortification of Atlantic-Pacific bases, and had the foresight to include Pearl Harbor, which gained two docks invaluable in its recovery from the 1941 Japanese invasion. After the war, Moreell became Chairman of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp...