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During the afternoon, part of the Chinese delegation visited the Honeywell Information Systems Laboratory in Cambridge William N. Lipscomb, Jr. Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, and Stephen C. Harrison '63, assistant professor of Biochemistry, demonstrated some of their research findings at the Gibbs Laboratory for the rest of the delegation.
Piety. Flashbacks to a pious childhood as a missionary's son in Shantung province follow, along with some overdone conjecture about the psychological effect on Luce of the Boxer Rebellion, which forced his family to flee China temporarily when the boy was two. Then come a series of stories...
If this were a polished writing job, it would be one more of those slick commercial novels about an ad agency. Instead, it is clumsy, serious and painstaking, and perhaps as a consequence, considerably more enlightening. The agency involved is called Gibbs & Wilson, and at G. & W. creativity is king...
Then Bower's indulgent boss is killed in a cab accident. His replacement as agency head is George Brice, who looks like a druggist and talks fluent corporatese. Brice's reputation is based on the Relief headache-remedy ad, showing a diagram of a headache inside a head...
For both the schools and their students, an impressive degree is less important than job placement. New York's highly rated RCA Institutes, owned by RCA Corporation, operates three shifts a day training TV and electronics technicians in a former warehouse and places 79% of the graduates. Half of...