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...Commencement Week comeback, Daniel Patrick Moynihan serves as speaker for Phi Beta Kappa, Class Day and the Associated Harvard Alumni ceremonies. Moynihan also delivers a speech for President Bok, who explains that he is too shy to talk before so many people...
...driving chairman of Bendix Corp., Michigan-based conglomerate in auto parts, forest products, other fields (sales: $3 billion) . . . Age 50 . . . Born in Berlin, fled Nazis with family to China, arrived in U.S. at 21 in 1947 with $60 in pocket; worked way through University of California, making Phi Beta Kappa; got Ph.D. in economics at Princeton and taught there . . . Was U.S. negotiator in the Kennedy Round trade talks in the 1960s (said one colleague approvingly: "The Europeans thought he was too tough") . . . Other business executives say he is good at delegating authority, can "cut through issues like a buzz...
Colby himself was and is an anomaly: a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton in 1940, a Wall Street lawyer after that, he headed the Pheonix Program in Viet Nam in the mid-'60s. Daniel Ellsberg '52 and others estimate that possibly 70,000 anti-Saigon government leaders were killed in that program's giant dragnet...
Eliot House Madrigals Phi Beta Kappa...
...BETA KAPPA--The oldest of exclusive organizations at Harvard has not always been the inactive body of top-notch students that it now is. Imported to Harvard from William and Mary in 1781, Phi Beta Kappa was originally an awesome secret society with rituals like those of the ancient Mayans. Along with shocking spiritual rites, the society acquired a touch of the commercial during the early 1920s. A complete display of post cards, novelties and souvenirs were sold at the cigar counter in the clubhouse, and during the baseball season, scores were posted daily in the luxurious club rooms...