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...Champagne Chuck Stewart '69. Stewart and a very blonde girl had driven all the way from Golf, Illinois to be present for the highlight of the New Haven social season, and it was highly unrewarding for him to stand at the bar, deep in the bowels of the DKE fraternity house, and write out a check for a hundred dollars...
First there was the mysterious death of Rear Admiral Hermann Lüdke, suspected of photographing NATO documents for a foreign power. Then came the suicides of four other West Germans involved in government or defense work. West German counterintelligence agents had only begun to sort all that out when Bonn admitted yet another serious-and bizarre-security gaffe. Attorney General Ludwig Martin announced that three men had been arrested for providing the Soviet Union with secret equipment, including a U.S.-designed missile, stolen from a supposedly tightly guarded NATO base...
...Yale Daily News revealed last week that DKE, a fraternity, used a red hot iron to "brand" its new members during the club's initiation rites. The brand burned a one-half inch delta, the symbol of DKE, into each new member's back...
...upperclass years, Roosevelt ate at his various sophomore, junior, and "final" clubs--the Institute of 1770, the DKE, and the Fly. But he failed to gain election to the most elite club--the Porcellian--despite the fact that his cousin Theodore had been a member. A scandal involving one of his cousins may have hurt his chances. But whatever the reason for his rejection, it was a serious blow to him. Eleanor Roosevelt thought it gave him an inferiority complex and led him to become more democratic...
...could still find fault with the Dartmouths though, for the possessive aspect that their newfound self-esteem assumed. At the DKE House, known in Hanover if not nationally as "black" (i.e. wild), a hired village cop was gustily turning away returning alumni who had forgotten their membership cards. The hospitality of the Green "Dekes" was not extended to a bedraggled "brother" from neighboring Middlebury, either...