Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grandfather was West Point, class of '15, his dad, class of '44; now David Eisenhower, 18, is putting a hitch in the family's military pitch. An honor graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Ike's only grandson will enter Amherst College this fall, instead of the Military Academy. "His parents felt that the decision should be David's alone," said Grandma Mamie in a McCall's interview...
That leaves only one batting honor left for the most popular living player to snare-Babe Ruth's alltime record of 714 homers. Will Willie make it? He personally doesn't think so. "I'll never pass Ruth," he says. "Maybe some guy coming up, like Hank Aaron, who is three years younger and has a friendly fence in Atlanta now, will pass...
...most-used unit to measure sound is the decibel, named in honor of Alexander Graham Bell, and defined as the smallest difference in loudness that the human ear can detect...
...students-even those from other states-who are members of the Medicare generation. Started in 1964 at the urging of the university's Council on Aging, the program, which might well be called Educare, has attracted 160 students. It will add another 25 next fall and will honor its first graduate this summer. She is Mrs. Amanda Hicks, 67, who turned to teaching school and operating a 450-acre farm after her husband died in 1940. She chuckles at the turnabout fashion in which her grandchildren keep warning, "You better get to your studying, Grandma...
...16th annual Prades Festival, and the players, members of a music society that Casals founded in 1919, had made the long journey as a tribute to their countryman, who will celebrate his 90th birthday on December 29. In honor of the anniversary, this year's festival has one of the most stellar lineups in its history. Violinists Alexander Schneider and David Oistrakh returned after several years' absence; Pianists Rudolf Serkin, Wilhelm Kempff and Julius Katchen took leave from crowded schedules to perform. It was a sentimental journey tinged with apprehension. "When a musician is almost 90," explained Katchen...