Word: senior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ever more plaintively for an end to the proceedings. "Don't drag me through any more," he implored. "Give me my rest either in sorrow or relief." Last week, as weary of the debate as Dodd himself, the Senate complied. It voted, 92 to 5, to censure the senior Senator from Connecticut for bringing the Senate into "dishonor and disrepute" by wrongfully taking $116,083 in campaign funds for his own use. He was only the seventh Senator in 178 years to be formally condemned by his colleagues...
...national Republican, "they spit in it." The metaphor may have been a little crude, but it could hardly have described more exactly relations between the national G.O.P. organization and the Young Republican National Federation. After a week of attempted handholding with a Y.R. convention in Omaha last week, senior Republicans may well have decided that it is easier to get along with Democrats...
...board results, his grades won him admission to the University of California at Santa Barbara. At first, Sorrentino felt he had nothing in common with the suntanned college youths who "talked about summer vacations, beach parties, things I knew nothing about." But he stuck it out and in his senior year, was elected president of the student body. After graduating magna cum laude, Joe went back into the Marine Corps for two years, feeling that "I had a blemish on my record and wanted to make up for that." He did. "This time I became platoon leader, highest scorer...
...teachers was $5,310; today it is $11,265. Harvard, which paid its top professors no more than $12,000 in 1947, will offer $28,000 next year; its 548 full professors average $20,000. And teachers take it for granted that the average will go even higher. "The senior faculty members expect a review of their salaries every year," complains Harvard's Arts and Sciences Dean Franklin Ford. "No one seems to remember back in the '30s, when it was every four or five years." Also on the rise are college payrolls for nonteaching services. At Kalamazoo...
...Office of Inter-American Affairs. He earned a commission as a naval aviator, served four years on antisubmarine patrol but never sighted a sub. While in service he married Mary Louise Phillips, a Vassar art major he had met at a postfootball party at Yale. She quit in her senior year to marry him; they now have five children.* Eager for a career in public affairs, he entered Harvard Law School in 1945, because "law schools seem to attract an extraordinary number of the people who have the highest potential of each generation." He made the Harvard Law Review, graduated...