Word: benning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter get reelected? Writing in Public Opinion, a new bi-monthly published by the conservative American Enterprise Institute, noted Psephologists Richard M. Scammon and Ben J. Wattenberg intriguingly argue that if Carter fails to get his White House lease renewed in 1980, the cause may lie not so much in his performance in Washington as in how he got there in the first place...
...Eilberg leaned on Carter. Civiletti swore he did not gather from the first conversation that Eilberg was himself under investigation, and said he did not recall any subsequent conversation with Baker about Eilberg. The contradiction led New York Times Columnist William Safire to draw a harsh conclusion last week: "Ben Civiletti or Tim Baker?one, not both?is telling the truth [and]deserves advancement, while the other ought to be receiving, rather than dishing out, criminal justice." That is an overstatement since there is nothing criminal about forgetting or misunderstanding a conversation, but the episode is at the least prima...
Harvard's other fencers found it impossible to keep pace with Penn's talented swordsmen. Sabreman Richard Gillette lost all of his bouts, but in the words of Coach Ben Zivkovic he was "robbed of his first bout" by the director...
...newspaper to upstage her magazine; but obviously she had, as she had learned of the Post's acquisition the night before it was published. Her observation: "Newsweek and the Post are very competitive. Sometimes it gets to be a pain in the neck." Added Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee: "I wouldn't give Newsweek the time of day, and they wouldn't give us the time of day. That's the way it should...
...Grow old along with me!" said Robert Browning's Rabbi Ben Ezra. "The best is yet to be." Meyer Lansky, 75, the Russian-born Methuselah of the underworld, once directed Murder, Inc., held the Mafia franchise for Havana and brought organized gambling to the Bahamas; but he has survived all to become a little old Miami Beach senior citizen. Now he lives quietly, Lansky told a visitor from the Miami News, enjoying a complete absence of memory ("There is no such thing as organized crime"). What does he do with his spare time? Well, he reads: "Lately, philosophy-just...