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Harris was largely a victim of circumstances. His selection as co-chairman of Citizens for Humphrey-Muskie indicated how fast he had risen after just three years in the Senate. Harris, 39, is a bright (Phi Beta Kappa, University of Oklahoma), lively politician who manages to remain popular in a conservative state despite his liberal views on social issues and his criticism of the Administration's Viet Nam War policy. But as party chairman, he carried two huge handicaps: 1) rebuilding a shattered party is a full-time job that stretches a hard-working Senator...
...McGill, the trip east will be a homecoming. Born in The Bronx, he worked his way through Fordham University, graduating as a member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1943. After earning his doctorate from Harvard, he joined the Columbia faculty and rose to become chairman of the psychology department. Five years ago, convinced that Columbia was headed downhill and uneasy about the university's tense relations with its ghetto neighbors, McGill went to the new campus at San Diego. "I reflected on what kind of revenge society could take against an institution for ignoring its environment," he says...
...reatrictions than the Marshall Scholarships, the Rhodes Scholarships remain the most prestigious and competitive. The traditional emphasis on athletics, however, may he disappearing. All the Harvard winners this year had impressive academic records, but only two of the six excelled in team sports. Three of the seniors belong to Phi Beta Kappa...
...space jargon and "gee whiz," the space explorers gave back to Middle America a victory of its own values. It was little noted, except in Middle America where such things still matter, that among Neil Armstrong's extraterrestrial baggage was a special badge of his college fraternity, Phi Delta Theta. He used it symbolically to establish Moon Alpha Chapter...
...learned, among many other things, that trucks were not built the way he and truck drivers thought they should be. For instance, a coat hanger in some truck cabs could puncture a driver's skull in case of an accident. He graduated magna cum laude and won a Phi Beta Kappa...