Word: magna
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Chandler will graduate magna cum laude from the college Wednesday. However, Daniel M. Melley, public affairs director for the university, said yesterday that many of Chandler's professors have advised against his admission to the graduate program. "You have to stop and think about admitting a guy who says that he has nothing left to learn from the school," Melley said...
...over well in union halls: "Nixon is a man obsessed with power. What he cares about is money and military power, bucks and bombs." But it is an uphill battle. At the Polish-American Congress convention in Detroit this month, Shriver offered what he called a seven-point "Ethnic Magna Carta," but he received much less applause than Spiro Agnew, who simply reminded the audience how close the President felt to them. Agnew and Nixon received another kind of ethnic compliment in Chicago when Frank Sinatra once again emerged from retirement. Changing the lyrics of The Lady Is a Tramp...
Butcher, who joined the bank in 1947 after graduating magna cum laude from Brown, has much experience in areas where Chase could be stronger. He worked in retail banking as a branch manager and proved himself adept at foreign finance as chief of Chase's international division. Describing Butcher, Rockefeller used the words aggressive, decisive, dynamic, driving. The chairman himself likes to chart broad policy and leave day-to-day operations to other executives. Rockefeller, the bank's largest single shareholder, owns about 1% of Chase's stock, worth some $17 million; last year he collected more...
With this bold declaration, mailed to various periodicals (including TIME), Victor Taylor, 28, announced his impending graduation, magna cum laude, from Southern Illinois University. He did indeed have a story to tell. A high school dropout from Dallas, he joined the Navy, tried to become a pilot but was disqualified for color blindness. That made him so "disenchanted with Navy life," as he put it, that he robbed a naval-station bank of $125,000 and ended with a ten-year prison term...
Steiner graduated magna cum laude, and following a year at the University of London, entered Harvard Law School. After law school, he held a one-year fellowship at the New York City Bar Association and then joined the New York firm of Patterson, Belknap...