Word: summa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Divine Simplicity. The rambunctious Defense Minister has settled down a bit since 1957, when he married a brewer's attractive daughter, a summa cum laude graduate of the same Munich school where Strauss was primus (top) of his class. They have a ig-month-old son named Max Josef, and Strauss has already bought the boy an electric train and, of course, made himself an expert on electric trains. He still manages to knock back heroic quantities of Sekt (German champagne), may sit up all hours drinking beer and arguing furiously with newsmen or fellow politicians. He reads three...
Three-Hatted Tasks. Handsome Emmet Hughes, son of a New Jersey judge, always had a way with words. Raised a Roman Catholic, he published his first book, The Church and the Liberal Society, a few years after his graduation, summa cum laude, from Princeton in 1941. He spent the war years at the U.S. embassy in Spain, doing three-hatted tasks for the State Department, the Office of War Information, and U.S. Army Intelligence. From his Spanish years came his second book, the anti-Franco Report From Spain...
...party's ways before the 1961 presidential elections. "Nothing less than a total war against corruption will satisfy our people,'' announced the new Garcia-and fired four of his Cabinet ministers. Then he summoned Economist Dominador (Dom) Ay-tona, 42, a onetime schoolmaster who had graduated summa cum laude from Manila University and served as Magsaysay's budget commissioner. "What do you think about graft and corruption?" he asked. When Aytona bluntly replied that reform was necessary, Garcia named him Secretary of Finance, in charge of customs, internal revenue and import licensing-the three major areas...
Bicks was practically born into the law. Both his mother and father (New York District Court Judge Alexander Bicks) are lawyers. Graduating summa cum laude from Yale in 1949, he went to Yale Law School, became Comments editor on the Yale Law Journal. His work attracted another Yaleman and onetime Comments editor: Herbert Brownell, then Attorney General, who needed a bright young man to help him with a newly appointed committee on antitrust laws. Bicks took the job in 1953 and discovered that antitrust work was precisely what he wanted. "One of the few absolute personal values I have...