Word: beta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that, faced with the possibility of passing it on to incompetents, i.e.'s editors decided to kill it, believing an honorable death preferable to the senility they saw on The Advocate. And to say that The Editor is on probation and that Audience is a junior Phi Beta Kappa is to play with words. Edmunds says that because Identity is published by an offset process, the success of the printing job depends on the poet's typewriter; if he studied printing, and that would be a very good place for The Advocate to start, he would learn that...
...discovery was made by careful observation of the Vanguard satellite Beta 1958. Last summer Ann Eckels, also of the Theoretical Division, noticed slight peculiarities about Vanguard Beta's orbit. Sometimes it moved a little slower than expected; sometimes it moved faster. Since a satellite's speed reflects the earth's gravitational pull, the changes of pace were interpreted to mean that gravitation varies over broad areas in an unexpected...
Divorced. Franchot Tone, 53, Cornell-educated (Phi Beta Kappa) actor; by Actress Dolores Dorn-Heft Tone, 23, his fourth wife; after nearly three years of marriage, no children; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
...second loudest, after Illinois' Noah Mason), won lieutenant's bars Stateside before flu struck him down. At Indiana University, one of the big playing fields for future Hoosier politcos, he maneuvered his way to student-union president, helped earn his own way (food manager for Beta Theta Pi fraternity), made Phi Beta Kappa, graduated (A.B., 1922) sixth in a class of 600. At I.U. Law School he graduated first in his class, dashed home to northwestern Indiana's Jasper County to win the first of five consecutive terms as prosecuting attorney of the Jasper-Newton county circuit...
...undergraduate secretary of Phi Beta Kappa and Radcliffe's highest-ranking Phillips Brooks House officer will aid the presidents of the Senior Class, Student Government Association, Board of Hall, the Commuters' Association, and the Choral Society in selecting 30 to 35 nominees, whose names will be read to the Senior Class at a meeting in the last week in February or the first week in March...