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Lowering High Jinks. Last fall the university decided to tackle its toughest problem: the fun-and-games atmosphere that attracted 5,000 students from outside sunny Florida (biggest out-of-state delegation: New York, with 1,300) and had earned Miami its nickname of Suntan U. The administration hired tough, grey-haired Robert Johns, director of the Illinois Commission on Higher Education, as its executive vice president, told him to crack down on student saturnalias...
...think we could develop into the strongest team Harvard's ever had," Fred Howard, the team captain, says. Howard, currently sporting a suntan as a result of the team's spring training trip to Puerto Rico, ran the half-mile in 1:52.0 last year to set the University record. He is one of four team members currently holding Harvard records. "Right now, we're a good team," he noted. "But with sufficient teamwork, we could become far more effective...
John Bouvier III was a swarthily handsome stockbroker who cut a dashing figure around New York and, because of his year-round suntan, was known variously as "Black Jack," "the Black Orchid" and "the Sheik." His marriage in East Hampton to Janet Lee, the handsome daughter of an indigo-blueblooded, wealthy (Manhattan real estate, banking) family, was a major event in the 1928 summer season. And just one year later, the Bouvier family doctor was summoned from Manhattan to preside at the birth of Jacqueline...
COCO became a fashion herself. Returning from the Riviera to Paris, her bronzed face launched the suntan vogue. One day she went to the races in a man's trench coat. The next week trench coats were the thing to wear...
...polls shows that if most of the unregistered 3,778,000 in New York, for example, could be persuaded or coerced into registering, six or seven out of every ten would pull the Kennedy lever in November.) Back in Hyannisport, Bobby showed the lines of fatigue under his suntan, but he had no time for relaxation. Uppermost in his buzzing mind were the plans for yet another campaign of Kennedy specialists: a road show by a team of political and voting experts that will discuss local and regional problems with political leaders and, hopefully, find solutions. A dozen meetings have...