Word: betas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon as he arrived last fall, Kristofferson began behaving exactly as he had done back at Pomona College, where he had earned a Phi Beta Kappa key, won conference recognition as a football end, commanded his R.O.T.C. battalion, won four out of 20 prizes in the Atlantic's collegiate short-story writing contest, played a top-chop game of Rugby, and kayoed an opponent in a Golden Gloves elimination fight before getting iced himself. At Oxford, Kris immersed himself in the dark waters of Anglo-Saxon, spent a few ergs of his seemingly inexhaustible reserve of energy playing Rugger...
...Chalmers '59 and Jane Fisher '61 are winners of the contest sponsored by the Radcliffe Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the Chapter announced at its spring meeting Tuesday night...
...Harper's Bessie (past jobs: U.S. public affairs officer in the Paris embassy, Look editor, OWI) has worked with such authors as Marcel Ayme, Alfred Hayes and John Cheever. Random House's Haydn (past jobs: editor of Crown and Bobbs-Merrill) edits The American Scholar, the Phi Beta Kappa journal, teaches fiction writing at the New School for Social Research. He wrote several novels, notably The Time Is Noon (1948), a panoramic view of American life that included some acid sidelights on the publishing business. In one scene, an ambitious junior editor is building up an awful novel...
...Radcliffe chapter of Phi Beta Kappa elected six juniors to membership Wednesday. Those chosen are Judith A. Abrams '60, of Briggs Hall and Brooklyn, N.Y., majoring in English, Shelia A. Greibach '60, of Briggs Hall and New Rochelle, N.Y., Linguistics and Applied Mathematics, Alice J. Hendrickson '60, of Whitman Hall and Seattle, Wash., Social Relations, Alice M. Maffry '60, of Gillan House and New York City, Classics, Majory Mauser '60, of Eliot Hall and New York City, History and Literature, and Jeanne Rosen '60, of Saville House and Cincinnati, Ohio, English...
...fluctuations in 1958 Beta Two ... seem to suggest ... semi-regular changes in the atmospheric density such as could be caused by variable solar radiation--for which one would expect to find occasional periodicities of the order of 27 days and possibly a correlation with geomagnetic activity...