Word: benning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great adventure, in the book as in life, ends before the goal is reached. Herzl died in 1904, burned out by the age of 44. It was literally in the middle of the journey. He had aroused the Jews of Eastern Europe-including a ten-year-old named David Ben-Gurion. Slowly they began the trek to Ottoman-controlled Palestine. The new Exodus was under way. Still, Britain's Balfour Declaration, promising land to the Jews, was 14 years away; Israel would not be founded for another 44 years...
...Ben Cartwright, move over. NBC'S Columbo, the disheveled shamus portrayed by Peter Folk, has joined ranks with Bonanza and I Love Lucy reruns as one of America's top TV exports. Now shown in 75 countries, the series has just been voted Japan's most popular television show in a poll conducted by the Japanese TV Guide. Falk's international success has not come smoothly, however. When Rumania's state TV network ran out of shows, fans of the raincoated detective began to protest, and the beleaguered network cabled Universal Studios for temporary relief...
...opposition had attacked Daley's age and frail health (he suffered a stroke last spring), the scandals of his administration, rising crime and deteriorating public schools. But most Chicagoans hold an abiding admiration for Daley and went overwhelmingly for the status quo. Explained former State's Attorney Ben Adamowski, a onetime critic who endorsed Daley this time: "When the ship is in trouble, you don't throw an experienced captain overboard." Daley carried 47 of the city's 50 wards, piling up 432,224 votes in the unofficial count to 217,764 for his chief opponent...
Bayi is not the first East African to run into the record books. Kenyan Kip Keino won the 1,500-meter gold medal in the 1968 Olympics, Fellow Countryman Ben Jipcho is history's second fastest miler, and Ugandan John Akii-bua holds the world record in the 400-meter hurdles. Now a veritable army of runners from East Africa is readying for the Montreal Olympics next year...
...inauspicious Pans Cinema (from lisa to Disney last month), but last year it was touted along with Terry Malick's Badlands as an exciting new seventies road picture by a fresh young director. A good movie to be showing at Harvard Directed by Steven Spielberg, with Goldie Hawn. Ben Johnson, and Michael Sacks '70 of Leverett House and Albany...