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...votes. Though Lugar is admittedly an underdog, Indiana Republicans believe their chances are a great deal more auspicious this year. Lugar's marks the first Republican administration in nearly two decades and only the third in the last 40 years of Indianapolis politics. A former Rhodes Scholar and valedictorian of his Denison College class, Lugar has amassed an impressive record as two-term mayor. In January 1974, a U.S. News and World Report analysis revealed that, among cities its size, citizens of Indianapolis suffered fewest homicides and robberies and second fewest rapes, achievements many attribute to Lugar's metropolitan improvements...
...dream seemed nearer. Quite suddenly, disaster struck his family once again: his mother suffered a stroke, and she too became bedridden. It seemed the dream would have to be deferred, until a reporter for the Southern Illinoisan wrote about Angus' hardship. Though Angus, who will be valedictorian of his 26-member graduating class, won a $5,250 Harvard scholarship, he estimates it will cost $1,300 a month to hire help and pay for medical care for his mother and brother while he is away. Several people responded to the news story with offers of aid, and though Angus...
...easygoing space rookie still speaks in a casual drawl. He has also managed to achieve a space first of sorts. He asked for-and got -grits (dehydrated) on his breakfast menu for this month's moon trip. But Duke's playfulness is deceptive. He was class valedictorian in prep school (Admiral Farragut Academy, St. Petersburg, Fla.), graduated with honors from the U.S. Naval Academy and later earned a master's degree in aeronautics and astronautics from M.I.T. Married and the father of two boys, he is also the only Apollo 16 crewman who openly made a point...
...never any doubt where he stood or how he felt. Bunche walked his first picket line for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1937. He joined the march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., six years ago. At high school in Los Angeles, Bunche was valedictorian of his graduating class, but had been refused admission to the school's honor society because of his race. Years later he turned down Harry Truman's offer of appointment as Assistant Secretary of State, at that time the highest U.S. post ever offered a black. Said...
...Young Steven wanted more, and entered Manhattan's Orthodox Yeshiva University High School. There he first came under the influence of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchek, a preeminent U.S. Orthodox authority and Kantian scholar who emphasizes Orthodoxy's basic compatibility with secular learning. Riskin went on to become valedictorian at Yeshiva University. Then, journeying to Israel to attend Hebrew University, he sought out Martin Buber, whose works he had been reading since he was twelve. Riskin found that he had a more traditionalist view of Judaism than the great philosopher. "Buber could not understand a God of Love giving...