Word: kappas
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...family heritage well qualifies him for nomination to the Supreme Court's "Southern seat." The first Powell to land in America arrived in 1607, one of the original Jamestown colonists. Powell himself was born in Suffolk, Va., won undergraduate and law degrees from Washington and Lee (Phi Beta Kappa and first in his class) and Harvard Law School, and now occupies an office overlooking a Richmond landmark, the home of Robert...
...style Republican who worked as a precinct committeeman during the presidential campaign of his fellow Arizonan. But even those who disagree with his conservative views concede his keen intelligence and professional skill. Born in Milwaukee in 1924, Rehnquist went to college and law school at Stanford, made Phi Beta Kappa, graduated first in his law class, and then won the honor of serving a year as legal clerk to the late Justice Robert H. Jackson...
Reverse Discrimination As a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Washington, Marco De Funis Jr., 22, had naturally assumed that he would be accepted by the university's law school. He was not, either last year or this year when he reapplied. Aspiring lawyer that he was, De Funis went to court. The main point at issue was that the admission of 30 minority-group students with lower grades and aptitude scores showed discrimination against him in violation of the Constitution's equal protection clause...
...college, by his own admission, young Fred never fitted into student life, but became a rebel whose lack of self-understanding now amazes him. He wrote an editorial attacking Phi Beta Kappa, helped cover the walls at Class Day exercises with "bitter caricatures of the faculty," and made such a shambles of commencement ceremonies that he was warned by the college president that he would not get his degree unless he quieted down...
...veteran of 26 TIME covers, dating back to 1962 and encompassing the full range of domestic debate over the war. Magnuson is a former Navy man, having done a two-year hitch before he went on to study journalism at the University of Minnesota in 1948. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate, Magnuson worked for ten years as a reporter and assistant city editor on the Minneapolis Tribune before coming to TIME in 1960. "Ed has the most professional of gifts: the ability to take an enormous quantity of complicated material and make swift, readable and often eloquent sense...