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...Prescott Bush, a former Republican Senator from Connecticut, George Bush received an impeccable Eastern education at Phillips Academy, Andover, and then at Yale, where he earned a Phi Beta Kappa key and a degree in economics in 1948. Wishing to escape the shadow of his father's success, he migrated to Texas, co-founded the Zapata Petroleum Corp. in 1953 and accumulated a fortune. In 1964, Bush got his baptism in the Texas political wars when he was defeated in a race for the Senate by liberal Democrat Ralph Yarborough. Lowering his sights, Bush was elected to two terms...
...Gordon, professor of Chemistry and the commission's chairman, said last week that the complaints concerned several investigative articles published in The Crimson last year. One of them--involving Stephen S. Rosenfeld '75, who was required to withdraw from the College for forging Phi Beta Kappa and graduate school recommendations-became nationally known, making the front page of The New York Times...
Awards moved him to tears. As a tormenting reminder of the college past he never had, O'Hara kept a mock Phi Beta Kappa key with a dunce cap on the top, engraved "Nope Never Made...
...student was Steven S. Rosenfeld '75, who forged letters of recommendation in the names of two professors to support his applications to five institutions, including Phi Beta Kappa, the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, and the Churchill Fellowship...
Although his name was on the ballot offered by a Phi Beta Kappa committee to the members. Amory Houghton Jr. '50, an Overseer, failed to gain election. Houghton, who is chief executive officer of the Corning Glass Works, was the only candidate identified on the ballot as a businessman...