Word: kappas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stennis got out of his car shortly before 7:40 p.m. and reached back inside to pick up his overcoat and briefcase, two black youths slipped up beside him. They demanded his money, grabbed his wallet (containing credit cards and an undetermined amount of cash), his Phi Beta Kappa key from Mississippi State, his gold pocket watch and his only coin, a quarter. Although he apparently did not resist, one of the thugs then struck him, and the other said something like, "Now we're going to shoot you anyway." Stennis fell from two shots, and the attackers fled...
...Washington fighting the effects of the McCarthy Era. J. Anthony Lukas '55 was busy covering the McCarthy hearings in Boston for The Crimson. Lukas was one of the few Associate Managing Editors ever to divide successfully his time between Widener Library and 14 Plympton--a member of Phi Beta Kappa, he graduated magna cum laude. Lukas found his true calling was in journalism and not in academics, though, and in 1968 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for an article he did for The New York Times on the background of a girl who had been murdered...
...prestige of Phi Delta Kappa the nation's oldest fraternity for educators, is on the wane as it continues to deny admission to women...
...following Radcliffe seniors have been elected to the lota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa...
...Beta Kappa Society gave Rawls its Ralph Waldo Emerson Award last Friday, and he New York Times Book Review named Rawls's work one of the "Five Significant Books of 1972" in last Sunday's edition...