Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Chairman Floyd Bond of Pomona's economics department began planning a summer session for executives, his first idea was to set up a stock course in business management. But the more he planned, the more he began to wonder whether that was what the nation's over-specialized executives really needed. "It seemed to me as it did to Emerson," Bond recalls, "that what we want is not lawyers, but men practicing law; not doctors, but men practicing medicine. For a good society, we must have not specialists and broad-gauge people, but specialists who are broad...
...Rational? To get the first students in the proper mood, Bond sent each six books to read-Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture, Robert Heilbroner's The Worldly Philosophers, Alfred North Whitehead's Science and the Modern World, The New Pocket Anthology of American Verse, and Short Story Masterpieces, edited by Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine...
Though the Fund for Adult Education has given Pomona only enough to carry on the program one year, Economist Bond feels that he will have no trouble making the course permanent. At course's end, 22 of the 25 said they would like to come back next year. Said one executive: "The lectures all seem to blend...
...Kountz's enthusiastic estimation, hormones do not suffice in themselves. He cites a depressed man in his 70s. "On hormones, he started coming around, but something was still bothering him. We found out that he was an inveterate gambler. I got him a job with a stock and bond company, and it made him a young man again. In four years he made $200,000. Now he's 93 and retired in Florida. He says his biggest regret is that he didn't grow old sooner...
...state scandal in years, spread it across Page One in Illinois papers from Waukegan to Cairo. Fearful that the scandal could rock Republican chances at the polls in November, Governor William Stratton last week ordered Auditor Hodge to 1) withdraw as a candidate for reelection, 2) double his surety bond (to $100,000) within 20 days or be fired...