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...Roman Catholic. Muskie was an earnest student, and was popular enough in high school to become president of the student council. He joined the debating squad and the basketball team-as a substitute. At Maine's Bates College, working his way through. Muskie was elected class president and graduated cum hiudc. His grades were equally good at Cornell Law School, where he graduated cum laude...
Nixon imposed direct controls on prices and wages for the first time since the Korean War. Confronted with a situation of inflation-cum-unemployment in which the old textbook remedies were no longer working, he seemed to be committing the Federal Government to an intimate role in major pay and pricing decisions by U.S. business for some time to come. The changes were all the more remarkable for having been agreed to in the course of one short weekend at Camp David...
...into a succession of mysterious caves lined with her black, white, gold and Plexiglas constructions. Roy Lichtenstein acquired one vast floor of a bankrupt bank on the Bowery (other floors were taken by Adolph Gottlieb and Barnett Newman). Kenneth Noland bought a storage building; Robert Rauschenberg, a flophouse-cum-church on Lafayette Street. The first artists' coop was set up in 1967 at 80 Wooster Street; by 1968, there were 15 such buildings, and there are at least 28 now. Today, a loft building that would have gone for $30,000 in 1960 is likely to carry a price...
Born in Chicago, he graduated from Harvard summa cum laude in 1952. During his junior year, he was editor of the Advocate, the school's literary magazine, a rare post for an economics major. As a senior, he served on the Crimson, stayed on at Harvard to win his master's and eventually a Ph.D. His thesis on the nature of the decision-making process, titled Risk, Ambiguity and Decision, was so complicated and so incisive that he became an overnight star in the rapidly developing field of systems analysis. Ellsberg joined the Rand Corp., where he became the prot?...
Seventy-seven per cent of the men will graduate with honors, while 88 per cent of the women will receive honors degrees. Two-hundred and twelve men (20 per cent) will graduate magna cum laude, and 49 (5 per cent) will graduate summa cum laude. From Radcliffe, 88 women (33 per cent) will receive magna degrees, and 9 (4 per cent) will graduate summa...