Word: cumming
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...classé Profession. Unlike many civil-libertarians, Williams acquired his lofty ideals in courtrooms rather than classrooms. The son of a Hartford department-store floorwalker, he helped support his family as a filling-station attendant. A flawless student, he was awarded a scholarship to Holy Cross and graduated summa cum laude in 1941. Because he hurt his back in a plane crash, Williams was medically discharged by the wartime Army Air Corps after two years, went on to Georgetown Law School. By 1945 he was working for a big Washington firm. Although criminal law was then considered déclass...
...chief contender for Moyer's place is generally considered to be Joseph A. Califano, 35, a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School who joined the staff 18 months ago after serving briefly but brilliantly under Defense Secretary Robert Mc-Namara. Califano, who chain-smokes Salems throughout a long dav. occupies the biggest office in the West Wing, where the inner circle is concentrated...
Last week the Rt. Rev. Horace Donegan, Episcopal Bishop of New York, announced that the diocese was scrapping the ambitious Gothic plan drawn up in 1911 by Architect Ralph Adams Cram. He in turn had drastically revised the original Byzantine-cum-Romanesque church whose cornerstone was laid in 1892. Instead, the trustees of the diocese have approved a more modest program for completion submitted by the firm of Adams & Woodbridge. In place of the spire-topped 500-ft. Gothic tower that Cram envisioned at the crossing point of nave and transepts, the new design recommends a dome made of concrete...
Such a change would have almost no effect on honors, since summas are given only to students with the highest grades, and magnas and cum laudes are awarded more on the basis of theses and generals than on grades. It would, however, move at least 50 students from Groups II and III up on the draft rank list and an equal number from Group IV down...
...Governor Harold Hughes to take on G.O.P. Senator Jack Miller, Hughes, an ex-truck driver and reformed alcoholic, easily won re-election over Republican William G. Murray, an Iowa State University economics professor; nonetheless, Hughes-imposed tax increases cut down his margin of victory. The voters' revolt over taxes-cum-inflation was also a major issue in Kansas...