Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...native Minnesotan, Donovan was graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Minnesota and went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. He was lured away from his plans to teach history by the better starting pay of a $25-a-week reporting job on the Washington Post. (Said the Post in an editorial last week: "Mr. Donovan... is a man of such enormous professional talent and personal distinction that whatever he does for the Carter presidency is bound to be a plus.") Donovan covered the State Department, Capitol Hill and the White House before serving as an intelligence officer...
...Women (NOW) in 1977, doubled the membership to 100,000 and raised dues and contributions from $700,000 annually to $2.6 million. The first housewife to head NOW, as well as its first full-time paid president, Smeal is a native of Erie, Pa., and a Phi Beta Kappa from Duke University. She discovered feminism
...Bush, lean, elegant and softspoken, handled the crowds with the easy grace of a Yankee patrician to the political manner born. His father, Prescott Bush, was a Senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1962. George Bush went to Phillips Academy, Andover, and to Yale, where he made Phi Beta Kappa, before moving to Texas in 1948, where he later helped found and run the Zapata Petroleum Corp. Bush promised last week to reveal his income taxes for the past five years and his net worth "to dispel the notion that I am a rich Texas something-or-other...
...overriding "syndrome" that winning is everything. This, harrumphed Howard, was all the fault of sportswriters. "Before we ever televised a game, the press did it. Let's put the blame where it belongs." The only thing wrong with telecasters, as far as the New York University Phi Beta Kappa could see, was that ex-jock commentators on networks other than ABC don't talk too good. They "consider it a monumental task to utter a simple declarative sentence," complained Howard. Was the statue of the Spirit of Justice behind Cosell throwing her arms up to signal unsportsmanlike conduct...
...privilege but not to political ambition. The arts, finance, philanthropy were the family concerns. Yet a reading problem, dyslexia, forced young Nelson out of the library into more active pursuits and made him a confirmed extravert. He struggled through school in Manhattan, then managed to make Phi Beta Kappa at Dartmouth in 1930. After graduation he married Mary Todhunter Clark, a member of a Philadelphia Main Line family that summered near the Rockefeller home on the coast of Maine. The couple's world tour had the trappings of a state visit as sheiks, princes, poets and artists turned...