Word: magnas
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...only child of an immigrant baker, Ella Tambussi Grasso is a magna cum laude graduate of Mount Holyoke who blends Italian warmth with Yankee efficiency. An early advocate of consumerism, she worked her way up the political ladder, starting as a state legislator in 1953; she was Connecticut's secretary of state for twelve years before being elected to Congress in 1970. Grasso will face either Congressman Robert Steele or Bridgeport Mayor Nicholas Panuzio in November. The latest poll taken by Republicans shows her to be so far ahead of either candidate that the party is keeping the results...
Joseph A. Califano Jr., 43. A magna cum laude Harvard Law graduate, Califano was general counsel to the Department of the Army and chief troubleshooter for former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara before moving to the White House in 1965 as Lyndon Johnson's top domestic aide. In that capacity he coordinated almost all aspects of the President's ambitious Great Society legislative program. Currently writing a book about the presidency, Califano is actively involved in national Democratic Party affairs, and has been particularly successful in gaining some equal air time...
...three years at the Law School, music remained the focus of Rubins's life. He maintains it was never a question for him of having enough time for music, but instead of having time for law. "As an undergrad, you can do well without working," says Rubins, who graduated magna cum laude from the College. "In law school, you can just get by without studying...
...also wrote a thesis. And took his generals. He headed into orals confident that he would graduate magna cum laude. After all, he had magnas from both his thesis readers, from both his written-generals readers, and he had magna grades...
...graduate of Cleveland's State University law school (where he won his degree magna cum laude while working as a newsman for a local TV station), Stern has knowledgeably interpreted every legal zigzag in the Watergate maze since he covered the arraignment of the original five burglars. Further, in a rare use of the 1967 Freedom of Information Act, Stern successfully sued the FBI to secure records-the latest of which were released to him last week-showing how the FBI, under J. Edgar Hoover, had mounted a nationwide harassment campaign against militant black and leftist radical groups...