Word: phi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...career, he has been forced to memorize his speeches so that he would not stumble over the words. With a scholarly life pretty much closed to him, he had trouble getting good grades at the progressive Lincoln School in Manhattan. But he worked hard enough at Dartmouth to graduate Phi Beta Kappa...
...Congress is, the country would be shut down," says Colorado's freshman Representative. A Democrat, she is the first woman to be sent to Congress from her state. A former law instructor and attorney for the National Labor Relations Board Schroeder is a Portland, Ore., native, graduated Phi Beta Kappa in three years from the University of Minnesota and earned a Harvard doctorate. In her re-election campaign she is emphasizing the need for congressional reform, improved mass transit and better child-care facilities...
...race. But the change in view has yet to take economic and structural forms." During three years of tireless lecturing about the women's movement, Steinem has done much to change viewpoints, and now she is retiring from the talk circuit to concentrate on writing. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Smith, she serves on the advisory board of the National Organization for Women, helped convene the National Women's Political Caucus in 1971 and is a co-founder and editor of the highly successful Ms. magazine (circ...
...journalism and one in economics," she recalls, but she chose economics and went on to become celebrated in 1972 as the first woman member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. The daughter of Computer Pioneer John von Neumann, Mrs. Whitman was a junior Phi Bete who graduated summa cum laude from Radcliffe and won a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia. A feminist, she got a chapter on women's economic status into the 1972 Economic Report. An authority on international trade, she returned to teaching in 1973 at the University of Pittsburgh...
...African operation that includes a black education foundation and executive training. "We may not know for 25 years whether our pathetic and uncertain efforts will have any effect," admits the thoughtful St. Louis-born Wyman, who is widely regarded as heir ap parent to Polaroid Founder Edwin Land. A Phi Beta Kappa English major at Amherst, Wyman worked in the Nestlé Co.'s new products division, where he was concerned with foreign acquisitions, now keeps close watch over Polaroid's fast-growing foreign sales...