Word: honorable
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With its low fees (total yearly cost: $2,600) and liberal rules (complete honor system, no dorm curfews for students entertaining dates), Prescott expects little difficulty in filling its classes. A chance to teach in small, informal seminars and high salaries ($14, average) have helped attract a strong and adventurous faculty. Support from Arizona citizens has been building as well; last year, Barry Goldwater donated his personal library to the college At Prescott, says President Nairn, who served as a New Zealand fighter pilot during World War II and holds a Ph. D. from Yale, "we are taking our past...
Once in 100 Years. On one matter, the delegates were able to show commendable unity: the election of Guatemala's Foreign Minister, Emilio Arenales, as president, an honor he prized highly, since "Guatemala can expect to preside only about once in 100 years." But the beginning of this century's term was hardly encouraging. In the Secretary General's annual report, U Thant surveyed the unhappy world and, conceding the U.N.'s ineffectiveness, could only suggest an old-fashioned summit meeting of the U.S., Russia, Britain and France. That suggestion is not likely to be taken...
Like many of the man's longtime friends, Safeway Stores Chairman Robert A. Magowan marvels at the way Jack Straus "still thinks of Macy's in the same terms that most men think of wives and honor." Or, he might add, of family. One of the great U.S. retailing baronies, R. H. Macy & Co. has thrived 'under three generations of Strauses, none of them more successful than "Mr. Jack," who has held sway over Macy's headquarters in Manhattan's Herald Square for three decades...
...honor Mayor Daley for keeping Chicago free of riot and anarchy. It was better for those who live here that every dissident in sight got clubbed than that our city should have surrendered to them in the name of freedom of speech...
Palace officials refused to confirm that the sixpence the viscount was proudly clutching had come from a good fairy in honor of the two front teeth he had lost during the vacation...