Word: phi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inspired by Senator Barry Goldwater's remark that "where fraternities are not allowed, communism flourishes," a group of students has organized lots Beta Phi to combat leftist tendencies at Harvard...
Until then a history major, she switched to economics the following year, pursued the subject with an obsession that earned her a Phi Beta Kappa key as a junior, every cash prize open to economics students ("I went out for them because we needed the money") and graduation magna cum laude in 3½ years. But Sylvia was not around to collect her diploma. "The point is the winning, the achievement," says Sylvia. "Being there didn't matter. I had no compulsion to say, 'Look...
...coffee and reading the business section of the Times in an Automat at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, she came upon an ad announcing the opening of a new investment-counseling firm, Glass & Krey, just up the street. Sylvia made the trip over in such a hurry that her Phi Beta Kappa key was still swinging like a pendulum on her bosom when she arrived at the desk of Arthur William Glass. The sight of the pendant transfixed him. "I've always wanted to hire someone with one of those," he murmured before Sylvia could open her mouth. "What...
Born in San Francisco, Bob McNamara was a rare sophomore Phi Beta Kappa scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. He took a master's degree at Harvard Business School, then after a stint at Price, Waterhouse, went back to Harvard as an assistant professor for three years until the war. Though McNamara is perhaps the prize Whiz Kid, all six of the original group still with Ford have worked their way up to key executive posts. FORD'S new president is usually at his desk by 7:30 a.m., when most of his staff is just...
Like most of G.M.'s executives, he is a product of the Middle West, where his father was an accountant in the small town of Three Oaks, Mich. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in business administration and a Phi Beta Kappa key, worked briefly for a Chicago accounting firm, joined General Motors' New York staff as an accountant in 1926. His quick grasp of figures and his lucid speech propelled him quickly upward. In 1941, at 38, he became one of the youngest G.M. executives ever to reach a vice-presidency...