Word: phi
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...Wellington, a farm supply center of 550 people in northern Colorado. His father, a lumberman, was town mayor-and a devoted Republican. Byron was valedictorian of his five-member high school class, went to the University of Colorado in nearby Boulder, where he waited table at the Phi Gamma Delta house, slung hash in a sorority, made Phi Beta Kappa-and became a Democrat. These were Depression years, and White was impressed by Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. "It seemed to me," he recalls, "that the Democrats had the more forward-looking programs." Hall of Fame...
Eight Radcliffe juniors have been elected to Phi Beta Kappa. They are: Barbara S. Gordon, a psychology concentrator, of Comstock Hall and Stamford, Conn.; Emily Shiling, a history and literature concentrator, of Jordan B and Baltimore, Md.; Karen Sue Cotzin, a social relations concentrator, of Holmes Hall and Worcester; and Stephanie M. Strickland, a history and literature concentrator, of Comstock Hall and Mt. Kisco...
...training all of South Viet Nam's Ranger companies, all of the loyalist troops in Laos, and five-man teams of South Vietnamese paratroopers for behind-the-lines raids. One of the Army's toughest combat soldiers, Rosson, at 43, is also its youngest major general, a Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Oregon, DSC from the Anzio beachhead, and a qualified paratrooper...
...pupil ever to progress as far as a high school diploma). He showed an early instinct for politics, at the age of 15 took the stump for the local Democratic candidate for the state legislature. At the University of Oklahoma, Albert majored in political science, was student council president, Phi Beta Kappa, a tournament bridge player, a sprinter, a 118-lb. wrestler (he now weighs 168), a member of the chess team and the pistol squad. The boy from Bug Tussle also won a Rhodes scholarship...
...triumph. When he took over as president of New York's junior exchange in 1951, McCormick-often called "Little Mac"-quickly made himself one of the most popular men in Wall Street. His personal history was the kind that warms the American heart: a onetime newsboy, he made Phi Beta Kappa while putting himself through the University of Arizona, then worked his way up from a $1,900-a-year job with the SEC to appointment by Harry Truman as an SEC commissioner...