Word: elliott
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last June, alarmed at the cautiously nonfundamentalist approach of a book called The Message of Genesis by Baptist Ralph Elliott, the Southern Baptist Convention reaffirmed the church's faith in "the entire Bible as the authoritative, authentic, infallible Word of God" and urged seminaries to stamp out "theological views which would undermine such faith in the historical accuracy and doctrinal integrity of the Bible." A fortnight ago, carrying out that mandate, the trustees of Kansas City's Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary "reluctantly and regretfully" fired Ralph Elliott from his professorship there...
...Master Elliott Perkins '23 remembers Lodge as "a good strong fella who wouldn't sit around telling about what his father did." Perkins also recalls, "I didn't have to intercede in his behalf with either the police or the Dean...
...found the British government indifferent and set out to sell the country on the idea himself. To ensure that Elliott's research would not be a wasteful duplication of effort, he made licensing arrangements and agreements to exchange information with British and foreign companies in the same field. Although Elliott's own designs are impressive enough that the company has sold to U.S. firms 20 of its "803" computers (price: $84,000 apiece), over 25% of its products are made under license from such U.S. companies as National Cash Register...
Time Out for Music. Bagrit himself attributes much of Elliott's rapid rise to the autonomy he grants his division heads-a habit that has stimulated prideful competition among them. This system has the added advantage of assuring Bagrit, who as a young man picked up spare cash by playing violin in the Royal Philharmonic, ample time to indulge his taste for music, art and philosophy...
Until recently, Elliott's operations were confined almost exclusively to Britain. But Bagrit, an enthusiastic backer of British entry into the Common Market, is now turning his attention to Europe, secured a beachhead on the Continent last year by establishing Elliott-Automation Continental in Luxembourg. "The next few years," he says, "will see industrial competition between nations on a frightening scale...