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...could hardly hold all his honors--student-body president, gifted singer, statewide debate champ and a nearly 4.0 average. Though he was slightly built and wore enormous glasses, Raines was even captain of the football team. "Mr. Everything," the Seattle Times called him when he got a four-year scholarship to Harvard. Five years later, the paper touted the 23-year-old Rhodes scholar as a "super black"--which may help explain why the OMB director bristled the first time his press staff made note of his race in a news release and ordered that it never happen again...
...first to admit that his opportunities were opened by others. "I was clearly helped at a variety of stages of my life because people gave me a chance to perform." His high school debate coach, Eva Doupe, arranged the scholarship that sent him to debate camp his sophomore year and once spent an hour persuading the football coach that Raines should miss a game in favor of a crucial out-of-town debate tournament...
DIED. ALFONSO ORTIZ, 57, Native American anthropologist whose writings offered a rare and richly detailed insider's view of the pueblo; from heart complications; in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His classic 1969 book, The Tewa World, was a breakthrough in Native American scholarship...
...scholarships will be named in Kung's honor and applicants will undergo a selection process similar to that used by the Rhodes and Marshall scholarship programs, Nye said...
...personal side of Ozment, 57, has included a childhood in Camden, Ark., two years at the University of Arkansas on a football scholarship and then a transfer ("I got beat up pretty bad," he says of his football experiences) to the smaller Hendrix College, also in Arkansas...