Word: earned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EVENTUALLY MANAGED to talk to Nixon, on his campaign plane after a speech in the northern part of the state. As the plane took off that night a plump young man named Patrick Buchanan (who was soon to earn a certain fame as the author of Nixon's law and order speeches) came back to where I was sitting and said pleasantly, "So you want to speak to the Boss?" I said I did and after a little screening, I was invited to the front of the cabin, where Nixon was sitting back with his feet up on the window...
...learned his swift and violent trade as a boy, skating on the frozen ponds of his home town, but like many young pros, he had found it hard to make a dent in the talent-heavy NHL. As a teenager, he turned down several pro offers in order to earn a degree in business at the University of Michigan, where he was an All-America hockey player. Belatedly he joined the pros in 1962 and spent the next seven years on the fringes of the big time-never quite making the first team of the Canadiens or the Rangers...
When Cheek took over in 1963, the Baptist university was virtually bankrupt. He mounted an emergency fund-raising campaign that eventually allowed him to double faculty salaries. Full professors now earn up to $14,000, which is in line with faculty salaries at most private white colleges. Following his conviction that Negro applicants who score low on white-oriented aptitude tests are not necessarily unfit for college, he has relaxed entrance requirements, abandoned rigid grading and allowed students to proceed at their own pace, graduating in anywhere from three to six years. When critics suggest that he is indulging...
...NORMAN C. FRANCIS, 37, XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA, New Orleans (1,362 students). Francis came to Catholic Xavier as a 17-year-old scholarship student and there he has remained, even working in a Xavier dorm while becoming the first Negro ever to earn a law degree at nearby Loyola. He served in a variety of administrative posts, organized the school's recent $10,000,000 expansion program...
...need weep for the brokers or their firms. Though profits on commission transactions will be off from last year, the average 16% that the firms earn on invested capital compares well with any other line of U.S. business. Then, of course, there are those celebrated Wall Street Christmas bonuses -even though many brokers are cutting back a bit. At Merrill Lynch, biggest of all, employees with more than 20 years' service, who collected an ex tra 23 weeks' salary last Christmas, will get only 22 weeks extra this year. Five-to ten-year men will get 17 weeks...