Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Class, however, chose the Reunion reports as an opportunity to reveal to his classmates that the dream he once shared with them wouldn't come true for him. "I came to grips with the fact that for me there was not going to be any wife and kids, and that were I ever to have what I'd thought I wanted--the 'house with the white picket fence'--the partner there would be a man rather than a woman," Alvin H. Baum Jr. '52 writes...
...FOOTBALL STAR. The star halfback this year for the University of Michigan Wolverines, Rob Lytle, 22, did not need to look far for a job. He had offers from alumni who wanted him as a sales representative-"someone with a name to sell their product," he says-but he chose instead to join the Denver Broncos professional football team. Lytle, who just married his high school sweetheart last Friday, reports to camp this week in Fort Collins, Colo., to train as a running back. An education major who took lots of business courses on the side, Lytle is looking beyond...
When the man who was to become Pope Paul VI was serving as the No. 2 official at the Vatican Secretariate of State back in 1948, he chose shrewd, witty Giovanni Benelli as his right-hand man. Four years after assuming the papal throne in 1963, Paul installed Benelli in his own former job at State, and ever since then Benelli has been the tireless "executive director" of the Vatican...
Earlier, the President chose the University of Notre Dame to deliver a ringing, detailed statement of his emerging foreign policy. Awarded an honorary J.D. (for Jurum Doctor, or Doctor of Laws) Carter turned to Notre Dame's president, the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh. and praised him for speaking "more consistently and effectively in support of the rights of human beings than any American I know...
...announcement was political dynamite. In the first place, it shook up the already volatile Likud, which won 43 seats in the elections but needs the support of at least 18 members of other parties to have a fragile but workable majority in the 120-member Knesset. Begin apparently chose Dayan without consulting any of his colleagues, and many were furious. In addition, one of Likud's potential coalition partners, the new Democratic Movement for Change, temporarily broke off talks with Likud. With the possibility of a revolt on his hands, Begin called a weekend meeting of the Likud executive...