Word: summa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sons, he was born into an affluent New York City Jewish family whose accountant father possessed, in the words of Jim's only brother, Eugene, "probably the brightest analytical mind we have ever met." Jim Schlesinger attended the right schools: P.S. 6, Horace Mann, Harvard (summa cum laude. Class of '50), where he was a classmate of Henry Kissinger. After earning his B.A. in economics, Schlesinger took off in 1950 on a traveling fellowship to Europe. In Vienna, then under four-power occupation, he inadvertently walked past the Imperial Hotel, the Soviet headquarters. A Russian sentry trained...
...Especially if you get a summa, as he did," said one Government Department tutor in reaction to Mansfield's comment...
Harris, 52, was raised in Mattoon, Ill. Her father was a railroad dining-car waiter, her mother a schoolteacher. She graduated summa cum laude from Howard University in 1945. Moving to Washington in 1949, she later married William Beasley Harris, now an administrative-law judge for the Federal Maritime Commission (they have no children). With her husband's encouragement, she completed George Washington University Law School in 1960. She was first in her class...
...though the only non-Mormon among them (he is a Roman Catholic). Holmes worked in Southern California as a salesman for a tobacco company before he signed on as Hughes' personal driver in the early 1950s. He joined the inner circle in 1957, and is now one of Summa Corp.'s five directors. Tense, quiet and politically conservative, Holmes is said to have been a very heavy coffee drinker and a chain-smoker-but never in Hughes' presence...
LEVAR ("BEEBE") MYLER, 53, the only other member of the Mormon Mafia on Summa Corp.'s board of directors. A former Air Force mechanic and picture-frame maker, Myler signed on in 1950 as a chauffeur for Actress Jean Peters, Hughes' second wife. Overweight, short-tempered and ailing (gout, heart trouble), he was standoffish and kept mostly to himself...