Word: bentley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fiestas, brightly costumed citizens, many of them from remote kampongs, beat on Malay drums, Chinese cymbals and Kadazan tom-toms. Sarawak Dyaks played flutes with their noses and blue-clad Chinese acrobats and Bajau horsemen from Sabah performed, while Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, 64, watched from a blue Bentley convertible flanked by three ceremonial elephants...
...about the present rash of damage claims but also about "the potential losses from similar events in the future." Insurance companies will certainly try to cut their losses-especially for any future disturbances. "Those people in Detroit are going to pay a whale of a price," says James L. Bentley, president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Jones does not hesitate to predict that looting and arson in the ghettos will result in higher insurance premiums and outright policy cancellations. To guard against the latter, both the Michigan and New Jersey state insurance commissioners asked for-and got-pledges...
...number of dramatists and the preponderance of influential dramatic critics seem to have taken all this to heart. Popular thesis books like Brustein's Theatre of Revolt, Bentley's Bernard Shaw, and Blau's The Impossible Theatre argue that a binding social vision has characterized the best of twentieth century drama, and, in the case of Shaw and Brecht, has been responsible for the continuity of the century's finest playwrights. Few critics, other than Marxists, have been very disturbed that neither dramatist was particularly successful in getting programs adopted, legislation passed, or governments changed. It is enough that their...
...Junior Fellows are: Joel E. Cohen '65, in Mathematical Biology and Sociology; Paul Horowitz '65, in Experimental Physics; Bentley R. Layton '63, in Early Christian History and Literature; John M. Lewis '65, in American Literature...
After Kentucky's legislature author ized a 10% hike in school taxes, the Pike County school board duly upped its budget, then sought the necessary majority approval from the eight-magistrate fiscal court. Never, cried Magistrates Taylor Justice, Foster Bentley, Burbage Prater and Darwin Newsome. Because the tax rise exempts utilities from paying more property taxes than they already do, charged the magis trates, the school board actually was seeking an "illegal" 20.8% hike for ordinary citizens...