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Long before his arrival in Cambridge two Septembers ago. Countryman had already established himself as the best long-distance freestyler in Region II of the AAU which included his home pool of Foxcatcher Swim Club then located outside Philadelphia on the DuPont Estate as well as Countryman's home 90-minutes away in Newark Del. Region II has also provided Harvard with two other sophomore swimmers, Maryland's Tom Verdin and Andy Lockman...
That prospect troubles many economists and businessmen who applaud what Reagan is trying to do. Says Otto Eckstein, a member of TIME's Board of Economists: "With only a little additional bad luck, the Government could experience a deficit of $100 billion." Adds DuPont Chairman Irving Shapiro: "I have a lot of trouble with this new economic religion. No businessman would run his business on the basis of an untested thesis...
...citing the primary one: "Exxon is so big you can get lost." McCreery stresses Exxon's "decentralized management approach," and its "emphasis on management development," which "makes size an advantage..." Representing an enterprise with 180,000 employees, whose $4.3-billion profits in 1979 represented more than the profits of DuPont, Sears, Proctor & Gamble, Xerox, and RCA combined, McCreery fights an uphill battle in convincing students they will be more than just a rung on the corporate ladder. But, he says, "Once you give people the idea that an industrial career can be tailor-made to their interests and capabilities...
However big his ego, moreover, Hartman does not let guests or viewers see it. "I'm no star, but David went out of his way to be friendly to me," says Dr. Robert Dupont, ex-director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. "On the other hand, I did four hours of filming with Dick Cavett, and at the end of it he didn't even remember my name...
...necessary to be gracious as to intentions: one should believe them good, and apparently they are; but we do not have to be gracious at all to inconsistent logic or to absurd reasoning. Bad logicians have committed more involuntary crimes than bad men have done intentionally. Pierre S. duPont...