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...member of the Administration last week issued a warning that more violence could only lead to adverse reaction. Radicals, Postmaster General Winton Blount told a national convention of Omicron Delta Kappa fraternity, "offer destruction, but no solution. Perhaps the exalting of ignorance is excusable to a point. But finally the combination of ignorance and rebellion is too explosive to tolerate. Our history shows all too clearly in which direction the middle class moves when it is frightened, angry or threatened. It goes to the right, not to the left. The more frightened it becomes, the angrier it gets, the more...
...majored in mathematics: "It is much the same as legal thinking-it teaches you to be precise and logical." To meet his expenses, he also worked as a milkman, janitor, driver of a launch for the freshman crew and a painter of handball courts. He made Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laude. In 1932, he got his Harvard law degree, clerked for Federal Judge John Sanborn, then joined a leading Minneapolis law firm. A lifelong Republican, he was appointed a federal judge by President Eisenhower in 1959. His fellow judges all have high respect for Blackmun...
Harris was largely a victim of circumstances. His selection as co-chairman of Citizens for Humphrey-Muskie indicated how fast he had risen after just three years in the Senate. Harris, 39, is a bright (Phi Beta Kappa, University of Oklahoma), lively politician who manages to remain popular in a conservative state despite his liberal views on social issues and his criticism of the Administration's Viet Nam War policy. But as party chairman, he carried two huge handicaps: 1) rebuilding a shattered party is a full-time job that stretches a hard-working Senator...
...McGill, the trip east will be a homecoming. Born in The Bronx, he worked his way through Fordham University, graduating as a member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1943. After earning his doctorate from Harvard, he joined the Columbia faculty and rose to become chairman of the psychology department. Five years ago, convinced that Columbia was headed downhill and uneasy about the university's tense relations with its ghetto neighbors, McGill went to the new campus at San Diego. "I reflected on what kind of revenge society could take against an institution for ignoring its environment," he says...
...Marshall Scholarships, the Rhodes Scholarships remain the most prestigious and competitive. The traditional emphasis on athletics, however, may he disappearing. All the Harvard winners this year had impressive academic records, but only two of the six excelled in team sports. Three of the seniors belong to Phi Beta Kappa...