Word: classed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Among the distinguished citizens at Yale University's commencement last week was Eugene R. Black, University of Georgia, class of 17, now head of the many-billioned World Bank and a man with quite a secret. Said Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold, handing Black an LL.D.: "With soft-spoken charm, you have circled the globe to develop the industry and agriculture of less fortunate peoples." Next day Banker Black, smiling broadly, turned up in Princeton. Presenting Black with his second LL.D., Princeton's President Robert F. Goheen cited him as "a native Georgian still engaged...
...Davis, 19. She was his sister Cecile, 21. Together they had made a remarkable record. Greg had not only been chosen one of Harvard's two student commencement orators, the first Negro so honored, but was also graduating magna cum laude, while Cecile (cum laude) was elected Radcliffe class president and senior-class marshal...
Broken Record. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, when their names were called to receive perfect-attendance awards at Class Day exercises at the Buchanan School, Kindergartners Roxanne Davis and Richard Hawkins were absent...
...honored adversaries. As always, his lifts were marvels of split-second timing and raw power. When Kono was done, he had hoisted a total of 865 Ibs. in three lifts to win his eighth national title, qualified easily to compete for the U.S. in the 165-lb. weight-lifting class at the Rome Olympics this August...
Kono virtually guarantees the U.S. a gold medal. Undefeated in world championship competition since 1952, he has broken some 30 world records. Even more unusual, Kono seems able to gain or lose weight at will and still lick the planet. In the Olympics he won the 148-lb. class in 1952, the 181-lb. class in 1956. In non-Olympic competition, he set a world record in the igS-lb. class...