Word: alma
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Maybe his sense of apocalypse is heightened by living so close to the San Andreas Fault. During a fund-raising luncheon at his alma mater. Illinois' Eureka College. California's Governor Ronald Reagan applied a truculently ominous-// extremely loose -interpretation of history to the condition of the U.S. "The young men of Rome began avoiding military service," said Reagan, who tripped up a hit on the distinction between Spengler's Decline of the West and Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. "[They] took to wearing feminine-like hairdos and garments, until it became...
...biggest Los Angeles rally was planned for U.S.C., with Black Leader Ralph Abernathy, the U.A.W.'s Paul Schrade and Senator Alan Cranston as speakers. Women Strike for Peace organized a vigil at the veterans' cemetery in West Los Angeles. At suburban Whittier College, Richard Nixon's alma mater, there were to be no classes during the M-day campus rally. A Canoga Park housewife, Mrs. Diane Steffin, finds M-day a happy outlet for the antiwar feelings she has had since 1965. "Until now," she says, "there didn't seem to be any way short of going to college...
...Allow a word from one who served on a faculty committee that recommended him for an honorary degree from his alma mater Furman University...
After graduating from Wapakoneta High School, Armstrong won a Navy scholarship to Purdue, the alma mater of three other astronauts (Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee, both of whom died in the Apollo launch-pad fire of Jan. 27, 1967, and Eugene Ceroan, a member of the Apollo 10 crew). Called to service in Korea at the end of his sophomore year, Armstrong earned a reputation as a hot pilot and three Air Medals in 78 combat missions. Returning to Purdue, he collected his degree in aeronautical engineering, and a wife, the former Janet E. Shearon of Evanston...
...game-winning hits. He helped the Yanks to six pennants and five World Series titles, then as a manager in 1950 startled the baseball world by finishing second with a mediocre Detroit Tiger club that had finished fourth the year before. In 1954, he returned to his alma mater, Dartmouth College, where he served as athletic director for 13 years...