Word: owen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DeWees, who graduated second in his Riverside, Calif., high school class. "In the physics course, you could earn a possible 30 points on one test. I got one point." Top scorers though they are, 30% of the entering class do not graduate from Caltech. Observes Dean of Students Ray Owen: "At midyear, half the freshmen are failing math and one-third are failing physics. They are afraid, and they couple that with their uncertainty in social terms; half have never dated. Still, many students confide to me that they love it here. They'll say, 'It is the first place...
...Turnalle Alliance, which South Africa created and still dominates, would be virtually assured of victory. Third World nations regard such a voting arrangement as worthless-a view increasingly shared in the West. "You don't try to rig an election or rush it," said British Foreign Secretary David Owen. Botha's angry reply, reportedly delivered in a tense negotiating session: "Don't you try to lecture me about democracy...
...absolute chaos. Then they want to establish an appointee of the British government as virtual dictator. We wonder why this is necessary. The Americans and British say [Joshua] Nkomo is the man, that you can forget [Robert] Mugabe. Now, I don't say that [British Foreign Secretary David] Owen and Vance specifically say they love Nkomo and they want him appointed. They are going along with the wishes of the Organization of African Unity and the front-line states, which support Nkomo. The U.S. and Britain don't want to cross...
...equally spectacular in baseball and hockey. "It's harder to play more than one sport now because the seasons are longer and they overlap," Clasby said. "But back then, George was the one we used to look up to," he added, putting his arm around another all-star, George Owen '23. Both men laughed...
...Owen is the only other Harvard graduate to hold nine letters, three each in football, hockey, and baseball. "All the ones who had ten are dead!" he chortled. After leaving Harvard, he went on to be captain of the Boston Bruins for two years. Owen, already a Hall of Fame member, was one of six admitted for athletic excellence...