Word: phi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point in this country where we have an elite of high IQs," insisted New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller while plumping for his new education bill that would help all students, not just brains. "I happen not to have such a high IQ," confessed Rocky, who nonetheless was Phi Beta Kappa at Dartmouth. "But I feel that I should have a right to get an education, too, and it shouldn't matter that my family doesn't have enough money to send me to college." Then, before he could be laughed out of the room, Rocky added quickly...
...young man on his way up. His first decision is to be married, for he senses that a beautiful young woman who is willing to seduce his professors may be a social asset. He courts and wins Aelia Crispus--the dark-haired, olive skinned, ruby lipped, full breasted, and phi beta kappa-ed Biochemistry major at Radcliffe. And to Cas's grateful surprise, he courts and wins her without ever even having to kiss...
James Edwin Webb, 54, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Another of Kennedy's Phi Beta Kappa keymen (University of North Carolina, '28), chunky, intense Jim Webb was a wartime Marine pilot, Harry Truman's budget director (1946-49) and Dean Acheson's capable Under Secretary of State (1949-52). A well-to-do lawyer and businessman, he is a director of McDonnell Aircraft, which makes the Mercury space capsule, and assistant to the president of Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, whose driving force is Oklahoma Democrat Bob Kerr, the chairman of the Senate Aeronautical...
Elvis J. Stahr Jr., 44, Secretary of the Army. As an undergraduate at the University of Kentucky, Democrat Stahr won the highest marks in the school's history, a Phi Beta Kappa key and a Rhodes scholarship. He has worked for a Manhattan law firm, and taught at the University of Kentucky's law school after wartime infantry service in the C.B.I. theater. He took leave from teaching to serve as a special adviser to Army Secretary Frank Pace during the Korean war, spent 19 months as vice chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh before stepping...
...first Henry Ford, unlike his grandson, might have thought scholarly Robert McNamara, president of the Ford Motor Co., an odd choice to be top man in either Dearborn or the Pentagon. San Francisco-born, Bob McNamara was a sophomore Phi Beta Kappa at the University of California. He went on to Harvard Business School for a master's degree, taught there for three years after working briefly for the accounting firm of Price, Waterhouse & Co. Although 4-F (eye trouble) during World War II, McNamara wangled a captain's commission in the Army Air Forces, eventually joined...