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...Ronald W. Reagan, a graduate of Eureka College and a lifetime opponent of Eastern liberal power, decided not to accept Harvard's longstanding offer to attend the 350th, citing scheduling difficulties. His staff announced the decision this March after Harvard, which has lobbied vigorously against the education-related policies of the president since he took office in 1980, chose not to award an honorary degree to Reagan or any other invited guest...
Ronald Reagan took to acting when he was in high school and later as a student at Eureka College in central Illinois. He discovered what it meant to "be together" with an audience, to stand on a stage and capture the people. Acting, when it achieves the right harmonics between performer and audience, is a work of almost intimate leadership. The actor enters into the minds of others and leads them through the drama, making them laugh or cry, making them feel exactly what he wants them to feel. It is a powerful and primitive transaction, a manipulation...
...wherever people are gathered." The couple spoke the traditional vows, and then the gathering of 100 guests quietly sang America the Beautiful. A deer watched from behind a tree. Afterward, while the bride and bridegroom headed off for a reception in the double garage of her parents' home in Eureka, Flower Girl Elizabeth Browning wandered down to the creek and dropped petals from her bouquet into the water, watching the slow current take them away...
...plan ever more precisely, to analyze ever more rigorously. Veteran Business Journalist Roy Rowan, however, has some refreshingly different advice. In The Intuitive Manager (Little, Brown; $15.95), Rowan, a longtime correspondent for LIFE and TIME and for the past eight years a FORTUNE editor, celebrates what he calls the Eureka factor, the sudden, illuminating flash of judgment that actually guides many business leaders...
...current emphasis on scientific management, Rowan concludes, the Eureka factor is likely to remain important in the history of business achievement. Says he: "The biggest winners tomorrow will be those who can summon from somewhere deep inside themselves . . . intuitive flashes of the business opportunities that have yet to surface." There will always be a place, in other words, for old-fashioned entrepreneurial spirit...