Word: phi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Craig went to Culver Military Academy, an experience that has left him with a cadet's brace posture. Because he wanted to see some of the country, he spent his first two college years at the University of Arizona, where he joined the forbidden drinking fraternity, Kappa Beta Phi, which was the reverse of Phi Beta Kappa in more than title. "I took liberal arts," says Craig. "Damn liberal, too, I'll tell...
...school Craig settled down and studied hard for the first time in his life, and was a better-than-average student. He became president of his two fraternities (Delta Chi, Delta Theta Phi), acquired the maximum number of cauliflower ears as a member of the university's wrestling team. In his last year of law school, he married his high-school sweetheart, Kathryn Heiliger (they have a son and a daughter), and graduated with a bachelor of law degree in 1932. A big campus politician in the same graduating class, but not a close friend of Craig...
...every side, under a blazing tropical sun, builders, bricklayers, tile setters, linemen, street sweepers and landscape gardeners were laboring, at a cost of perhaps $2,000,000, to ready their city for the arrival of the great men of SEATO (see above). The government of soft-spoken Strongman Marshal Phi-bun Songram, warm advocate of the West, hoped that the new treaty organization might even choose Bangkok as its permanent home...
...serious reading, but there are so many way of wasting time, the chances are you will find one to occupy the time saved. The academic average of men in the big sports is not below that of the College. One man on last year's varsity crew graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and is now at Cambridge working for a degree in History. Last year's captain is one the Conant Scholarship at Hamburg, the captain before is working on geo-physics at Cambridge. During the last four from the crew have gone to Harvard Medical School. Every sport has similar...
White Light. The game generates considerable campus excitement and is played by a radio hookup between the competing schools and Quizmaster Allen Ludden in Manhattan. Ludden, a 37-year-old Phi Beta Kappa from Texas, first throws out a "tossup" question; as soon as a player thinks he knows the answer he signals his referee to push the team's buzzer, which instantly lights a bulb in the Manhattan studio (white for the champion team, red for the challenger) and automatically cuts off the impulse from the other team. If the answer is right, it earns ten points...