Word: benjamin
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Redmond put together a tight organization, built 34 new schools, devised a system for constantly revising the curriculum. Against hot opposition, he started the Benjamin Franklin High School for bright youngsters, which graduated its first class last year ("It was in orbit before Sputnik"). His proudest memory of the first day of integration three weeks ago, when truancy was rife, is that "my Franklin kids stuck with...
...democracies, Schwarts concluded, they are not unacceptable from the American point of view. "If you get a many-sided world with many polarities," he said, the Communist prediction of eventual world victory "will gradually pass over from the category of an operative doctrine to the realm of ritualistic dogma."BENJAMIN I. SCHWARTZ...
...intensified. Fuel was added to the flames in 1876, when Democrat Samuel J. Tilden outcounted Republican Rutherford B. Hayes in popular votes, but lost on the electoral tally in a contest that reeked of bribery and ballot stuffing. In 1888 Democrat Grover Cleveland won a popular plurality, but Republican Benjamin Harrison carried the college. As years passed, reformers proposed more than 100 constitutional amendments that would change the electoral college system, but conservatives and champions of the federal system scuttled them...
...expected, the equipment for the new center will be supplied by Chicago's Brunswick Corp. But Brunswick's boss is a man who believes bowling is not everything. Since Benjamin E. ("Ted") Bensinger took over in 1954, he has turned what was a faltering firm producing only bowling and billiard equipment into one of the fastest-growing U.S. companies-with a line of products ranging from hospital beds to motorboats. Sales have risen from $33 million to $275 million last year; earnings from $692,000 to $26.8 million. Sales for 1960 are expected to exceed $350 million. Reflecting...
...stretched along the banks of the Schuylkill (pronounced Skookl) River. It has a zoo, the the Philadelphia Museum of Art, mansions from colonial times, some buildings put up for the 1876 Centennial, a duplicate of the Rodin Museum in France and an excellent institute of applied science named for Benjamin Franklin. Covering 4,000 acres, it is one of the world's biggest municipal parks. With all that, Fairmount's most appealing distinction is as an outstanding outdoor show of sculpture- a vast art museum without walls...