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Kenneth Uston, 47, is an American success story: Phi Beta Kappa in economics at Yale, Harvard M.B.A., a former senior vice president of the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco, who in 1975 quit his $50,000 job to follow an offbeat, not to say raffish, entrepreneurial dream-and made it work...
...first annual lecture of a new series established by the Radcliffe Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Huxtable, here for a two-day visit, said architects today no longer believe they can improve society through better housing. "We're addressing the failure of a moral vision," she added...
...Hartford, Ella Tambussi was the only child of Italian immigrants. She won a scholarship to the elite Chaffee School, and her father worked 14-hour shifts in a bakery to pay for her books. Another scholarship took her to Massachusetts' Mount Holyoke College, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1940. After earning a master's degree in economics and sociology, she became a protégée of John Bailey, longtime boss of the Connecticut Democratic organization...
Chapin--who left Harvard with a magna cum laude degree in history and with Phi Beta Kappa honors--said he became interested in Latin American affairs and fluent in Spanish as a child, while living in Ecuador with his father, also a career foreign service officer...
...best known for his work in labor law, is the Cabinet's only black so far. An Eastern Establishment Republican, the son of a prosperous dry cleaner and real estate man in the New York suburb of Glen Cove, Pierce was a star halfback and Phi Beta Kappa graduate at Cornell, where he also earned his law degree in 1949. He then began building a long string of firsts, such as the highest-ranking black (as an assistant to an Under Secretary of Labor) in the Eisenhower Administration and the first black partner in a major New York...