Word: phi
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Members of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity delivered a letter to Gays At MIT (GAMIT) yesterday apologizing for the incident, in which they handed out anti-gay leaflets, and saying it was only a prank...
...just outside Hartford, Ella Tambussi was the only child of Italian immigrants. She won a scholarship to the elite Chaffee School, and her father worked 14-hour shifts in a bakery to pay for her books. Another scholarship took her to Massachusetts' Mount Holyoke College, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1940. After earning a master's degree in economics and sociology, she became a protégée of John Bailey, longtime boss of the Connecticut Democratic organization...
Chapin--who left Harvard with a magna cum laude degree in history and with Phi Beta Kappa honors--said he became interested in Latin American affairs and fluent in Spanish as a child, while living in Ecuador with his father, also a career foreign service officer...
...Pierce, who is best known for his work in labor law, is the Cabinet's only black so far. An Eastern Establishment Republican, the son of a prosperous dry cleaner and real estate man in the New York suburb of Glen Cove, Pierce was a star halfback and Phi Beta Kappa graduate at Cornell, where he also earned his law degree in 1949. He then began building a long string of firsts, such as the highest-ranking black (as an assistant to an Under Secretary of Labor) in the Eisenhower Administration and the first black partner in a major...
...Brothers are so thrilled to be living under the same roof that they have trouble expressing their bliss in mere words. Everything works out right at Phi Kappa Sigma. Everyone is smiling. How can this be? These guys go to MIT, don't they...