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...most pressing of these issues concerns the relationship of federal highways to mass transportation systems and what should be the federal role in financing the two. Last month Rep. John Bingham (D-N.Y.) introduced in the House a bill to help finance mass transportation with money which now goes to highways. Highway construction money comes out of a special trust fund which was set up only after the most intricate and laborious legislative maneuverings. Bingham's bill proposes to use money from this highway trust fund for mass transportation needs, such as building and improving subway systems. Bingham...
Brasselle's protagonist is Jonathan Bingham, the sadistic and ruthless president of BCA ("Broadcast Corporation of America"). Bingham is "the smartest sonovabitch this business has ever seen," and would "slash his own mother's 'wrists in order to win, and take pleasure doing it." He enjoys a lurid private life: cadres of call girls in New York balanced by orgies on the Coast. He hangs out at Mercurio's restaurant in Manhattan, wears Italian marble cuff links carved with the network initials and terrorizes the television industry. But BCA boasts smarter savages than Bingham...
Baker, First Marshal of the Senior Class, received the Bingham Award as Harvard's most valuable athlete. Captain of the cross country team, he paced the harriers to an undefeated season and Harvard's first Heptagonal championship in a decade. With sophomore Roy Shaw, Baker chased the four minute barrier in the mile throughout the winter and spring, finally lowering the Harvard record to 4:00.2 in the Outdoor IC4A's. A very strong runner, the wiry Englishman had two other particularly outstanding days. Against Princeton he won both the mile and the half mile, setting a University record...
...delineate his future role at the university. However, despite campus peace demonstrations and anti-Administration rallies, the prospect of learning government's inner workings from the maestro has already excited students. "I'd jump at the chance to have the President as a professor," says Senior Annette Bingham, a government major. "His experience in government would be invaluable to almost any student," allows Junior Larry Upshaw, who opposes Johnson on Viet Nam. The sentiment, however, is not universal. "If Lyndon Johnson came here to teach government," snirted a coed studying political science, I'd change my major...
...Treasurer's Award--given each year for the outstanding performance in the Harvard-Yale dual meet--was given to senior Jim Baker. In this year's meet, Baker--who received the William J. Bingham Award, Harvard's highest athletic honor, last Thursday--won the mile and two-mile and placed second in the half-mile...