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People who wonder what it takes to be a leader would do well to listen to Charles Knight. His father, Lester B. Knight, 72, who is one of the premier management consultants, programmed young Chuck to be a leader ever since he grew up on Chicago's gilt-edged North Shore. At 15, Dad packed his only son off to a client's foundry in a small Canadian town for a summer's work to learn blue-collar life. After that there were summer jobs in Switzerland, Germany and Argentina, engineering and business studies, varsity football...
...Knight skipped away from his family's company to join a valued St. Louis client, Emerson Electric, of which he soon became chief executive. Father was furious. The breach has healed in the seven years since then, in part because Chuck Knight has shown how well he learned his lessons. Emerson is on most short lists of the best-managed companies in the country, and, with its sales having risen steadily to $2.6 billion last year, it is challenging bigger General Electric and Westinghouse in many product areas. Now 44, Knight is one of the youngest chairmen...
...have to be able to set priorities. I always remember my father said, "Chuck, your health comes first; without that you have nothing. The family comes second. Your business comes third. You better recognize and organize those first two, so that you can take care of the third...
...most famous of the grotesque games come from the fevered imagination of Chuck Barris. Beginning with The Dating Game (1965) and continuing through The Newlywed Game, The Gong Show and The $1.98 Beauty Contest, he has made a habit of finding contestants who willingly expose their sad sexual inadequacies, their inept performing skills and their physical homeliness to a nationwide audience. In Barris' latest and grossest gem, Three's a Crowd (which might well be titled The Divorce Game), wives and secretaries compete to see who knows the most intimate details about the man whom they share...
...McNulty and Schuler started off the running events in fine style, placing first and second, respectively, in the 1500-meter run(shorter than the mile) with a winning time of 3:55.3. Chuck Johnson added another first in the 55-meter hurdles, clocking a time...