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...point in this country where we have an elite of high IQs," insisted New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller while plumping for his new education bill that would help all students, not just brains. "I happen not to have such a high IQ," confessed Rocky, who nonetheless was Phi Beta Kappa at Dartmouth. "But I feel that I should have a right to get an education, too, and it shouldn't matter that my family doesn't have enough money to send me to college." Then, before he could be laughed out of the room, Rocky added quickly...
...first decision is to be married, for he senses that a beautiful young woman who is willing to seduce his professors may be a social asset. He courts and wins Aelia Crispus--the dark-haired, olive skinned, ruby lipped, full breasted, and phi beta kappa-ed Biochemistry major at Radcliffe. And to Cas's grateful surprise, he courts and wins her without ever even having to kiss...
James Edwin Webb, 54, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Another of Kennedy's Phi Beta Kappa keymen (University of North Carolina, '28), chunky, intense Jim Webb was a wartime Marine pilot, Harry Truman's budget director (1946-49) and Dean Acheson's capable Under Secretary of State (1949-52). A well-to-do lawyer and businessman, he is a director of McDonnell Aircraft, which makes the Mercury space capsule, and assistant to the president of Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, whose driving force is Oklahoma Democrat Bob Kerr, the chairman of the Senate Aeronautical...
...white schools must begin. Back to the University of Georgia came the two young Negroes who were the targets of a bawling mob only a few days before. In came local cops, private cops, state cops and quiet men from the FBI. Down came the Confederate flag atop the Kappa Alpha house, and coeds dutifully obeyed an 8:30 curfew. "Quiet as a good country churchyard at midnight," said Dean of Men William Tate, who had battled the mob alone. Surveying husky Hamilton Holmes, one football-happy alumnus mused: "The more I look at that boy, the whiter he gets...
Elvis J. Stahr Jr., 44, Secretary of the Army. As an undergraduate at the University of Kentucky, Democrat Stahr won the highest marks in the school's history, a Phi Beta Kappa key and a Rhodes scholarship. He has worked for a Manhattan law firm, and taught at the University of Kentucky's law school after wartime infantry service in the C.B.I. theater. He took leave from teaching to serve as a special adviser to Army Secretary Frank Pace during the Korean war, spent 19 months as vice chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh before stepping...