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Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa 46 years ago, Nathan Pusey (rhymes with newsy) went to Harvard after graduating from his home-town high school. At college, he became fascinated by ancient history, won a fellowship to study in Greece, wrote his Ph.D. thesis on Athenian law. Since then he has followed a scholar's career: at Lawrence, Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., Wesleyan University, and finally back to Lawrence as president...
...Creston, Iowa (pop. 8,317), high-school graduation time was approaching, and parents were worried...
...take off after the annual senior prom and speed merrily around the countryside until dawn. As plans rolled along for the traditional all-night sprees, the elders frowned, though not entirely on moral grounds. Auto accidents worried them most: in the May 1-June 10 periods since 1946, 50 Iowa teen-agers have died on the highways, most of them on prom night. The all-night graduation rite has long been prevalent, but it took on a sort of tomorrow-we-die bravado during World War II, when most male graduates went directly from high-school commencement to the induction...
Creston's worried parents scouted around, found that the grownups of Eldora, Wapello, Clinton, Columbus Junction and other Iowa towns had met the menace by offering an annual community-sponsored all-night fling. Last week Creston tried the same remedy. Druggist Rex L. Mitchell sparked the party, got 33 local organizations to cooperate. The junior and senior classes approved the plans, added stipulations: 1) no teachers allowed after the prom, 2) other adults could serve food and drive the cars but were in no way to act like chaperons. The kids picked a name for the fling: "Crestubilee...
...Ames, Iowa, Kansas Olympian Wes Santee, winging around the track in the Big Seven championships, set a new collegiate mile record of 4:06.3, clipping four-tenths of a second off the old mark set by another famed Kansan, Glenn Cunningham...