Word: phi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nowhere was such zero-hour caution more conspicuous than in the Phi Beta Kappa Hall at William and Mary College in Williamsburg, Va. Before the debate, a White House aide told the President, "The name of the game is not blowing it." Both Ford and Carter did their best to avoid a gaffe, but the result was something less than inspiring. "It was another case of Mr. Ready v. Mr. Steady," said California's Republican vice chairman Mike Montgomery. "I score it a negative draw-zero to zero...
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Phi Delta Alpha, Sigma Nu, Kappa Kappa Epsilon...they all seemed the same by midnight when the frats overflowed into the street, making one big party, an orgy of clashing bands rowdy frat guys and tipsy visitors. Somehow that Ivy League aura had vanished. This was a mammoth beer blast to rival any Big Ten post-game show. And that was after a losing effort on the gridiron...
...Washington, too, the President has kept in close touch with his past, athletic and otherwise. He meets regularly with cronies from Grand Rapids and Capitol Hill, and on July 31, he took time out from the slogging quest for delegates to give a luncheon reunion for his law school Phi Delta Phi fraternity brothers. After rising at 6 o'clock, he pedals the equivalent of a mile astride a stationary bicycle upstairs in the White House, and he ends the working day by swimming 22 laps, or one-quarter mile, in the pool behind the West Wing...
...crisis hand, Magnuson came to TIME 16 years ago from the Minneapolis Tribune. There the Phi Beta Kappa journalism graduate of the University of Minnesota (other Minnesota alumni in journalism: Eric Sevareid and Harrison Salisbury) won several Twin Cities awards for crime reporting and human-interest stories, and for a decade covered a broad sweep of the upper Midwest, from Wisconsin to South Dakota. Given leeway by the Tribune, Magnuson wandered over his territory, reporting spot news and old frontier tales alike from Tuesday to Friday and protecting his favorites on Saturday, when he took over as night city editor...
...members) Central Schwenkfelder Church, a Protestant sect with origins in Silesia. At 17, he enlisted in the Navy and served on the carrier Tarawa in World War II, then returned to Pennsylvania. After two years at Slippery Rock State College, he transferred to Penn State, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He joined his father's business, eventually becoming vice president for sales...