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...close to 11. had been rejected; cum laude candidates had been elected over magna candidates...") all occurred because the electors of PBK refused to couch the administration of honor in Mr. Chester's Procrustean bad. Having been present at the June elections in 1963, '64, and '65, I can vouch that the great majority of these apparent reversals favored a heterogeneity of interests, favored signs of intellectual flare and excitement, over that massive but dull competence which gets its own reward in grades, grades, and more grades...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBJECTIVE STANDARDS? | 10/1/1966 | See Source »

...fine swing. His tee shots, though not long, are straight. As far as three-putting, this happens to almost all Europeans who play the Sotogrande course for the first time because the fast bent-grass greens that Trent Jones built are new and unknown in Spain. I can vouch for the accuracy of these statements because it was I who played with General Franco that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 6, 1966 | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...obvious threat represented by this obnoxious chemical should provide the administration with a long-awaited excuse to purify the air in Lamont on an hourly basis. Frequent users of Lamont--and there are many on this newspaper--will vouch for the abundance of contaminants in that institution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Purify Lamont | 3/22/1966 | See Source »

...Express got mixed up with Tino in an effort to spur sales of its famous travelers' checks. Back in 1944, the company figure J that it could induce bankers to push the checks by performing a service for them. A subsidiary, American Express Warehousing, would store, inspect and vouch for the oil that commodities dealers commonly used as collateral for their bank loans. It was a rewarding business-De Angelis paid American Express Warehousing up to $20,000 a week-but terribly risky. If anything went wrong, Amexco's subsidiary was responsible for making good on its warehouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: The Man Who Fooled Everybody | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

Love on the Lawn? While his colleagues squirmed with shame and embarrassment, Dickinson blandly allowed as how "I am not going to vouch for the authenticity or the veracity of any affidavit or any individual whose affidavit I hold"-and then proceeded to lend them authenticity by reading some of the "eyewitness" reports aloud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Mud in the House | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

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