Word: summa
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Died. Alexander Mordecai Bickel, 49, distinguished constitutional lawyer and Yale Law professor; of cancer; in New Haven. A native of Bucharest, Rumania, Bickel emigrated to New York in 1939, manned a machine gun with the U.S. infantry in Italy and France and graduated summa cum laude from Harvard Law School after the war. Later he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, who molded his approach to the law. Politically liberal, Bickel backed Robert Kennedy for President in 1968 and defended the New York Times in the Pentagon papers case in 1971, but often stunned liberal friends with his judicially...
...studied clarinet at the Juilliard School, and during World War II joined a dance band (Leonard Garment, now counsel to the President, played the sax). After a year of one-and two-night stands, Greenspan decided that he would prefer to go to college. In 1948 he was graduated summa cum laude in economics from New York University. He worked for The Conference Board (a business research group) for a while, then founded his now-thriving consulting firm in 1953 with William Townsend, a Wall Street bond trader, who died in 1958. Presently a bachelor, Greenspan was married...
...Columbia University's Law School is a skillful labor mediator (earlier this year he helped resolve a dispute that could have led to a transit strike) as well as an imaginative educator (he has proposed a program in which students will serve as apprentice lawyers). Severn was summa cum laude at Columbia, took his law degree there before joining the faculty in 1957. After the spring riots in 1968, he helped establish a university senate that has kept the campus cool ever since. Two years later he was appointed dean. Although he avoids politics, he did use his position...
...economics," she recalls, but she chose economics and went on to become celebrated in 1972 as the first woman member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. The daughter of Computer Pioneer John von Neumann, Mrs. Whitman was a junior Phi Bete who graduated summa cum laude from Radcliffe and won a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia. A feminist, she got a chapter on women's economic status into the 1972 Economic Report. An authority on international trade, she returned to teaching in 1973 at the University of Pittsburgh...
...treasure will be recollection of Belen in class, boldly contesting ideas about behavior and intelligence which so many have swallowed "summa cum laude"--because they have never seen; because they have never been "the studied." Radcliffe years will be remembered for knowledge we shared about fascinating linguistical and cultural similarities and differences about extended Spanish-speaking families on the east and west coasts...