Word: senior
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ending for a senior perhaps, but when Mary Howard hangs up her spikes for the last time following the Yale game next week, there will be nothing but smiles for the four-year veteran who symbolizes Harvard's field hockey revival...
...pictures that TIME regularly runs has jumped by 20%, to nearly 100 an issue, and our increased use of color has compounded the problems faced by Drapkin and George, who head a 19-person department. However, covers like this week's on American farming, the work of Senior Writer George Church, always make the extra effort worthwhile. The photographs, both color and black and white, bring that extra dimension to the story that Drapkin is seeking...
...1950s, Kahn, a registered Democrat, served on the senior staff of President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers. From 1974 until his appointment to the CAB, he was chairman of New York State's Public Service Commission. Under his direction, the PSC allowed telephone users to hook up their own equipment to the Bell system and permitted utility companies to set different electric rates depending on the time of day. As Kahn advised his CAB successor, Marvin Cohen: "Understand how a free market works and restrain one's tendency to meddle...
Behind the public image, another side of the Pope was emerging: that of a strong-minded decision maker. Instead of rubber-stamping the reappointments of senior Curia officials, John Paul announced that he needed time to ponder them. That stirred flutters of prelatic concern?was a reshuffle in store? He did fill the top Curia post of Secretary of State by reap-pointing Jean Cardinal Villot, 73, but he made a point of saying the assignment was 'Tor the initial period of our pontificate." Nonetheless, by naming a foreigner to the post, he passed up an opportunity to ease...
Caltech's high standards and its required menu of advanced science courses put undergraduates under fierce pressure. "When I came here, I felt everybody in the class was smarter than I was," recalls Senior Peter DeWees, who graduated second in his Riverside, Calif., high school class. "In the physics course, you could earn a possible 30 points on one test. I got one point." Top scorers though they are, 30% of the entering class do not graduate from Caltech. Observes Dean of Students Ray Owen: "At midyear, half the freshmen are failing math and one-third are failing physics. They...