Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speedups. The secret policeman, the stool pigeon and the scab nourished. When these tactics were protested by Ford's only son, Edsel, the old autocrat gradually withdrew from him, both professionally and personally, and gave increasing powers and recognition to his devious little chief of "internal security," Harry Bennett, a former sailor and sometime boxer...
...November, the Metropolitan Transit Authority put up for sale its Bennett St. switching and storing yards, a 12-acre area across from Kirkland House that the University has long coveted as a site for a tenth House...
...medical school is unique: it is part of the university's division of biological sciences, puts stress on research and theory as opposed to the "humanitarian" approach at many other medical schools. "You could be the most humane doctor in the world," explains Dean H. Stanley Bennett, "and if you're uneducated, you're no good." Chicago's medical students learn alongside biochemists, microbiologists, pharmacologists. More than half go on to teaching and research at other medical schools...
...Dean Bennett is overseeing one of Chicago's main gambles-that science in the next 20 years will grow fastest in biology. Geneticist Beadle, who won his Nobel in medicine and physiology, is fascinated with how the brain stores and releases knowledge. "Is there a molecular coding system as in genetics? If we just knew what goes on here," he says, tapping his head, "think of the problems we could solve in society, in education...
...despises corrupt literary cocktail parties, Algren seems to have survived a lot of them without letting his hosts or fellow guests suspect his feeling. The "throngs" that saw him off on his temporary emigration were as corrupt a crew of notable names as ever were dropped. His acquaintance included Bennett Surface, a characteristic Algren joke-name notable for being an even dimmer joke than any pulled by the original. And the pansy routine Algren sets going between a literary character named Norman Manlifellow and a "deeply tanned" writer named Giovanni is good for a yak, even though the material might...