Word: alpha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Washington's Dunbar High School, an excellent though then segregated institution known for the number of students that it sent to Ivy League colleges, Brooke attended Howard University, where he cut an enviable swath with the coeds and was president of Alpha Phi Alpha, the nation's oldest Negro social fraternity. Because of an early inclination toward medicine, he majored in chemistry and zoology, graduating in 1941. On Pearl Harbor day, he was called into the Army as an R.O.T.C.-trained second lieutenant, was assigned to the all-Negro 366th Combat Infantry Regiment. He saw combat action in Italy...
STEPHEN C. F. DIAMOND: Eliot House Committee, social chairman: Harvard National Scholar; Dean's List; Sigma Alpha Epsilon; freshman football, captain; varsity football; Rugby Club...
...Brattle fans' real hero is Godard himself. Champion of love and poetry, foe of technology and sterility, Godard fights a never-ending battle for all sorts of aesthetic things that the computer which rules Alphaville, Alpha 60, just doesn't appreciate...
...Scientist Von Braun is about to blow up the Outerlands, Alphaville's enemy, when Caution, who has just escaped from the clutches of Alpha 60, bursts in and shoots him. Then there is a great chase scene with Caution's car chased around by two police cars -- all shot from directly overhead. Godard tosses in a few negative shots and Caution gets away, gets the girl and gets out of the place...
Algernon & Nellie. Eventually, of course, newsmen caught on, but Luci's new steady rated little attention from the press until October. At First Friday Mass, Pat proposed and was accepted. Luci received a ring made from Pat's Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity pin, which she has never worn in public. By the end of the month, headlines predicting their marriage bounced around the world. The President was at the L.B.J. ranch, recuperating from his gall-bladder operation, when Pat and Luci flew there on Oct. 29-presumably to obtain his permission to marry. It was widely surmised...