Word: ushers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gallup is haunted by a pollstergeist. He is possessed by the notion that if enough people are polled on enough subjects, the truth about disease, happiness, longevity, poverty, politics and war will soon become obvious. Then, armed with facts, the population need only use its untapped brain power to usher in "a higher plane of civilization" that would make classical Greece or the Renaissance look like cultural wastelands by comparison. "All that is required," Gallup asserts with Panglossian optimism, "is a firm belief in man's great potentialities and a readiness to accept change...
Varsity soccer (3), Captain; Varsity squash; Varsity Lacrosse; Undergraduats Athletic Council; A.D. Club; Hasty Pudding Club; Varsity Club; Junior usher; Dean's List...
Though still rather exhausted by its mighty move into tiddlywinks last year, Harvard's ever-expanding sports program will take another historic stride in the next few weeks when the Karate Club is formally organized. The Club, which will be open to all undergraduates, will usher Harvard into the extremely elite circle of American universities which have karate organztaions, and may indeed be the first formally organized college karate club in the nation...
...daughter of Actress Joan Bennett and Film Producer Walter Wanger; and Frederick Guest II, 25, investment banker-son of Socialite Winston Guest; in one of Manhattan's gayest summer weddings, attended by the Maharajah of Jaipur, and including Prince Juan Carlos, son of the Spanish Pretender, as an usher, after which the newlyweds took off for a year-long honeymoon...
Minihan was chairman of the Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs, activities coordinator for the Quincy House Committee and a member of the Combined Charities board of overseers. A former junior usher, he holds the Procter and Gamble Scholarship. Under Minihan's chairmanship, the Council regained its prestige and efficiency in dealing both with student and Faculty...