Word: bachelors
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...started as a police reporter after graduating from Yale, then was a White House correspondent before becoming assistant city editor in 1964. Son of a wealthy New York City lawyer, he became editor in 1968, has brightened layouts, emphasized investigative reporting and broadened coverage of the underprivileged. A handsome bachelor-about-town since his divorce from Alice Patterson Albright, whose family of Medills and Pattersons made newspaper history with their Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News and the late Washington Times-Herald, the politically liberal Hoge has seen Sun-Timesmen collect four Pulitzer Prizes, while the paper's circulation...
William J. Baxley, 33, is a flamboyant politician who was elected Alabama's youngest district attorney at 25 and the youngest attorney general in the state's history at 29. A bachelor given to loud clothes and fast cars, he is an energetic crusader who, in his self-styled role as "the people's attorney," has tilted with strip-miners, polluters, and, in an effort to lower prices, the Alabama dairy commission. The only thing between Baxley, a native of Dothan, and the governorship is George Wallace. That is quite an obstacle, but then Baxley figures...
Edmund G. Brown Jr., 36. Once a candidate for the priesthood, "Jerry" Brown is now the Democratic candidate for Governor of California. The bachelor son of former Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown chose to switch from a Jesuit seminary to Yale Law School in the early 1960s, became a civil rights activist and antiwar crusader. By using the long-ignored power of his office-secretary of state-to implement campaign reform, he soon began making a name of his own, most recently by launching a well-publicized investigation into President Nixon's tax returns. Stiffer than his convivial father...
...which represents a kind of adaptation of the Chicago "great books" tradition. At Kansas, a uniform list of readings from at least 60 Western authors, ranging in time from Plato to C. P. Snow, is read and discussed in small groups by every sophomore who plans to receive a bachelor's degree. Instead of a lecture of two each week to clarify the material, which for so large a class would create a huge logistical problem, some faculty member or graduate student who specializes on a given author discourses at a weekly meeting of discussion leaders--mostly graduate students from...
...time; later he collaborated with Psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo on a book called On the Psychology of Meditation. Ornstein is currently at work on seven more books. He is also teaching at the U.C. Medical Center in San Francisco, lecturing, traveling and organizing symposia on the nature of consciousness. A bachelor, he tools around in a hot orange Porsche 914 and lives on a Los Altos mini-estate complete with sun deck and swimming pool. He takes no time out for meditation. "I'm not convinced it's good for you, or more personally, that it's good...