Word: alma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wishes the evidence would be presented scientifically," chided Dr. Ernest Wynder of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. A Columbia-trained doctor complained that his alma mater had put "a safety tag on a lethal habit." Even the New York Daily News, generally against reformers and do-gooders, labeled the Columbia press conference "giddy hoopla...
Since ecumenism has become an accepted part of church life, all too many exponents of church unity have discovered to their horror that they spend most of their time attending interfaith meetings. According to Jesuit Theologian Daniel O'Hanlon of California's Alma College, so many interfaith organizations and dialogues are under way that there "may be a need for an ecumenical movement to bring the ecumenical committees together...
...their alumni. Professors regard reunion lectures as a chance to try out new ideas on a captive, eager audience. And experience has convinced school officials that instilling old grads with ideas rather than iced martinis is a far more effective way of developing pride in one's alma mater-and stimulating contributions to the next building-fund drive...
...friend of his for years, I do not recognize the man you describe as Andreas Papandreou. If you knew Andreas or his writings, you would know he is no more a "leftist" than the younger Hubert Humphrey, in whose alma mater Papandreou taught economics between Harvard and Berkeley. By this semantic smear you justify another U.S.-subsidized rightist regime rejected by the populace in national elections. Your version of the coup imperils the life of Andreas Papandreou in a cynical "treason" trial...
...merger with the Guaranty Trust Co. to form the nation's fourth largest bank (current assets: $7.6 billion), then retired in 1964 to the somewhat less rigorous life of director of half a dozen corporations.* Aside from high finance, his abiding concern was for his alma mater, Harvard ('21), on whose Corporation he served for 15 years, and to which he willed a sizable share of his many millions...