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...nation, TIME correspondents noted that while some felt apologetic about abstaining, many were confident that they had taken the only proper action. Los Angeles Attorney Linda Abrams, 26, has been pasting stickers on her private letters that read: DON'T VOTE-IT ONLY ENCOURAGES THEM. A Phi Beta Kappa from U.C.L.A., Linda said, "The only way I would vote now would be if there were four categories: Democrat, Republican, No Preference and Abolish This Office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Those Who Stayed Away | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

Virtually all of his life, Watson has been the peer to watch. The son of a Navy enlisted man, Watson went from high school at Pine Bluff, Ark., to Vanderbilt University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1960. He joined the Marines the same year. A slender man of 150 Ibs., Watson had remarkable stamina: He set two permanent obstacle-course records at the Quantico base, where he became an officer. He bucked for the Marines' most elite outfit, the First Force Reconnaissance company, and had to survive a list of training schools that were excruciating even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Proceed and Be Bold' | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

...neighborhood, so we all dreamed of being Teresa Brewer, who had made it. I did go to college. Then my father sent me an ad from a Las Vegas club for chorus girls. You had to be at least 5 ft. 7 and have a Phi Beta Kappa key [the group was called the Hi Phi Betas]. By that time I had become thoroughly convinced that you weren't supposed to be a leader, you were supposed to marry one. I learned to Uncle Tom, to giggle and laugh and say, "How clever of you to know what time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: GROWING UP DIFFERENT | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

Nowhere was such zero-hour caution more conspicuous than in the Phi Beta Kappa Hall at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Va. Before the debate, a White House aide told the President, "The name of the game is not blowing it." Both Ford and Carter did their best to avoid a gaffe, but the result was something less than inspiring. "It was another case of Mr. Ready v. Mr. Steady," said California's Republican vice chairman Mike Montgomery. "I score it a negative draw-zero to zero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: AVOIDING A KNOCKOUT IN THE CLOSING ROUNDS | 11/1/1976 | See Source »

Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Delta Alpha, Sigma Nu, Kappa Kappa Epsilon...they all seemed the same by midnight when the frats overflowed into the street, making one big party, an orgy of clashing bands rowdy frat guys and tipsy visitors. Somehow that Ivy League aura had vanished. This was a mammoth beer blast to rival any Big Ten post-game show. And that was after a losing effort on the gridiron...

Author: By Mike A. Calabrese and J.h. Yeager, S | Title: Harvard Havoc Reigns in Hanover | 10/19/1976 | See Source »

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