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...oldest, deepest, and most nearly conclusive attractions of democracy is manifested in our feeling that....bread and justice, education and art, will be accessible to everyone...
...major victory that reflected voter frustration with ordinary politics and ordinary politicians, Republican S.I. Hayakawa ousted Democrat John Tunney from his U.S. Senate seat. When the tart-tongued Hayakawa takes the oath of office next January, he will be-at 70 -one of the oldest freshman Senators in the history of the Senate...
...BETA KAPPA--The oldest of exclusive organizations at Harvard has not always been the inactive body of top-notch students that it now is. Imported to Harvard from William and Mary in 1781, Phi Beta Kappa was originally an awesome secret society with rituals like those of the ancient Mayans. Along with shocking spiritual rites, the society acquired a touch of the commercial during the early 1920s. A complete display of post cards, novelties and souvenirs were sold at the cigar counter in the clubhouse, and during the baseball season, scores were posted daily in the luxurious club rooms...
ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, New York City human rights commissioner: I grew up in Washington, D.C. Both of my parents had gone to college-the hard way, but they had gone. I was the oldest of three girls. While we were children the second and third were always closer. They ran together and I was separate. I was also the overachieving older girl. Out of the experience of being an older child who quickly had younger siblings I developed another kind of role -to remain different and to remain critical...
...speaking of Kubacki, the senior signal-caller, despite his slowdown during the last month, now needs but 128 yards to reset the oldest career record remaining in the Crimson books, the total offense mark...