Word: featly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congressman, was a class hero, but his roommate brought the Class of 1940 its deepest distinction. John F. Kennedy stayed out of politics as an undergraduate, but his honors then in--later expanded into the book Why England Slept--was highly political. Kennedy graduated cumlaude, at the time a feat accomplished by only 20 per cent of the Class
...Feat of Clay...
...Jove!" Boston-born, Grew was educated at Groton ('98) and Harvard ('02), was sent by his family to travel in the Far East, planned to return to the family's banking business. While in China, he shot a tiger in a cave - a feat that later enthralled big-game-hunting President Theodore Roosevelt. During that trip Grew became fascinated by life abroad and decided to enter the foreign service. By the time Teddy heard from a mutual friend about the tiger-slaying exploit, Grew was a $600-a-year clerk in the U.S. embassy in Cairo...
...putting up Early Bird, Comsat performed one of the greatest feats in communications history. Last week it performed another feat that sent sighs of envy welling through corporate officers everywhere. One of the most persistent corporate hecklers was bodily expelled from Comsat's annual meeting by husky Pinkerton guards...
...Around Town. His feat this month came as slight surprise to anyone who knew James Randel Matson-including Dallas Long. By the time he was 18, Charlie Matson's boy was already a big man around the Panhandle town of Pampa, Texas. Naturally-he stood 6 ft. 61 in. tall and weighed 210 lbs. He also averaged 15 points a game for Pampa High's basketball squad, ran 50 yds. for the winning touchdown against archrival Amarillo High, and was practically a one-man track team-heaving the 12-lb. shot 66 ft. 10½ in., hurling...