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Word: selections (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite repeated attempts to convince the State Department of Public Works to select another route, Massachusetts officially recommended that the federal government approve Brookline-Elm last March. Now, about a month before the state elections, Volpe appears to have reversed his administration's decision, or, at least suspended...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: Governor Shifts Inner Belt Stand | 10/6/1966 | See Source »

...without doubt, Phi Beta Kappa simply makes mistakes in trying to select the 90 intellectually most powerful members of a class in which six or seven hundred graduate with honors. No one claims PBK is infallible. But neither, fortunately, is it as significant as Mr. Chester inclines to believe. If Mr. Chester is on the losing end of one of PBK's mistakes, let him take consolation in knowing that membership in PBK neither bestows nor rewards greatness. Joel E. Cohen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBJECTIVE STANDARDS? | 10/1/1966 | See Source »

Each spring, close to one hundred members of the graduating class are added to the twenty-four members of their class already in Phi Beta Kappa. As a disappointed candidate for this "select" group, I decided to learn what. I could of its clandestine election procedures. I inquired of Dean Monro, several faculty members, the wife of recent Harvard Phi Bete, and others. The results of these discussions were profoundly disturbing to me, and, I feel, should be made public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ills of PBK | 9/26/1966 | See Source »

...free world is already linked in the Atlantic Community. Once the war in Viet Nam is ended, the U.S. sees no reason why it should not watch and cheer that community from its own shores, ready to act to protect its members against aggression, but willing to let Asia select its own path into the modern world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: AMERICA S PERMANENT STAKE IN ASIA | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

...average week, our queries evoke a response of more than 700,000 words. The writers and editors in New York select the best and freshest of this material-much of which first sees print in TIME-combining it with their own information and judgment to tell the story of the world's week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Sep. 16, 1966 | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

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