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Lillian Becker wanted to teach so much that she went back to college for her degree at age 42 and graduated from the City College of New York as a Phi Beta Kappa. Today, at Intermediate School 70 in Manhattan's Chelsea district, Becker scrubs the desks in her classroom herself and sweeps the floor three times each day. Says she: "Kids sense the order, and they like it. They behave differently in a clean classroom...
...named by TIME as one of 200 future American leaders. He left Polaroid to head Green Giant Co. Under his direction, the Chaska, Minn., food processor bounded from $293 million annual sales to $485 million in 1978, when it merged with Pillsbury. The 6-ft. 3-in. Wyman, a Phi Beta Kappa at Amherst College (he wrote his senior thesis on the poetry of William Butler Yeats), scarcely concealed from friends and executive recruiters that he was tired of being No. 2 at Pillsbury...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Brown University last week took Phi Delta Beta fraternity off a probation imposed last month after an alleged incident of group sex there...
Another fraternity, Delta Tau, which was placed on probation at the same time as Phi Delta Beta, remains on probation. Delta Tau members allegedly threw a sofa out of an upstairs window, set it on fire and then urinated...
...Palo Alto, Bok sprit his time among the Phi Kappa sigma fraternity, his studies and what he now calls a "mediocre game" of varsity basketball. Tall and athletic, Bok, as one classmate from 1951 recalls, "was into a good time" but was undecided about his future. Eventually, Bok opted to return to the East Coast and--following his father, now an associate justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court with a liberal reputation--headed to Harvard...