Word: cum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loft-his "plywood palazzo"-but, when pressed, he picks the man to design his dream house: New York's Richard Meier, whose work he analyzes in this week's story. And Hughes would have Cover Subject Philip Johnson whip up a "gazebo-cum-study...
Meanwhile, Kaplan was graduating magna cum laude from CCNY in 1939 before earning his master's in education the following year. Before long, his high school tutees had become college students worried about a new test--the LSAT's--and Kaplan began tutoring privately for that test...
...career by the Great Crash. "I went into economics," he says, "because the world was suffering from catastrophic depression." The experience did not make him a partisan of Big Government; it convinced him instead of the strength of free enterprise. After a boyhood in Paterson, N.J., he graduated summa cum laude from New York University and earned his doctorate in economics at Yale. He started teaching at Cornell in 1947, and has remained on the faculty ever since...
...magna cum laude out of Yale, with a wife who comes from a wealthy Rochester, N.Y., family, Seith has poured $600,000 of his own and his wife's money into the campaign. Percy, stunned by his new underdog status, finds himself short on funds and has had to spend $100,000 from his personal bank account. He is now pleading for contributions to finance a last-minute TV blitz that he hopes will chase away the incumbency blues and turn the election around...
...attractive daughter of a wealthy, distinguished American family graduates magna cum laude from Radcliffe College in 1969 and gets a job in a London art gallery. There she meets and falls in love with a dashing young businessman from Greece. He is a year older than she, and he shares her passion for medieval religious art. In 1975 he follows her to Staunton Hill, her family's ancestral home for more than a century: a replica of a Scottish castle set on thousands of acres of rolling plantation land in southern Virginia...