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Thirty-year-old Victor Taylor has achieved an exceptional academic record, and last week he was granted an M.A. degree in psychology from Southern Illinois University. The subject of his thesis: Anti-Deviant Aggression and Self-Absolution. Two years ago, Taylor earned his B.A. magna cum laude from the same college-completing his degree in a remarkable 21 months (TIME, Oct. 16, 1972). His scholastic achievements qualify him for a number of jobs in teaching or community mental health, and he would probably have little trouble gaining admission to a Ph.D. program. But for the moment at least, these options...
...baseball fans it is a great moment in history-like the Pilgrims' landing at Plymouth Rock or King John's signing the Magna Carta. There stands Babe Ruth with two strikes on him, gorilla-chested, monkey-faced, pipestem-legged, pointing imperiously to deep centerfield. It is the 1932 World Series against Chicago in Wrigley Field, and when Cub Pitcher Charlie Root fires the ball, the Babe hits a vast home run to the very spot, winning the ball game. Unfortunately, things did not happen quite that way. But, as Robert Creamer demonstrates again and again in this book...
...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...