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Sheila and Peter Hebein learned that their first and only child had Down syndrome on the day he was born, in 1972. "I remember kind of stopping breathing," Sheila recalls. Prenatal testing was rare in those days, and because she was only 30, she was not a candidate. "One of the most challenging things about that day is that you're on a great high because you just had a baby," she says. "Then someone comes in and says, 'Yeah, you had a baby, but ... ,' and how they say that but is critical." The Hebeins, who live in Evanston...
...DIED. PETER DRUCKER, 95, pioneering consultant who argued that companies should free workers to reach management objectives; in Claremont, California. Born in Vienna, Drucker fled to London in 1933 after the Nazis banned one of his essays. Four years later he migrated to the U.S., where he published his 1939 book on the rise of authoritarianism, The End of Economic Man. It was his classic 1946 study of General Motors, The Concept of the Corporation, that launched his career as a business guru. Drucker went on to write more than 30 books advocating the empowerment of employees while questioning unbridled...
...explained shortly before the 1929 stock-market crash why prices would keep rising, and was so chastened that he vowed to leave the role of futurist to others. But PETER DRUCKER had plenty to say and did so in more than 30 books, and few in the business world have ever been so adept at seeing around corners. Drucker, who died last week at 95, foresaw inflation in the 1970s, the rise of Japan Inc. in the 1980s and the decline of unions in the 1990s. But his most far-reaching theories were on management and labor. He argued that...
...PETER UEBERROTH 1984 Chairman of the Board of the U.S. Olympic Committee...
...dented that disaster genre. Writer-directors David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker (who later profitably spoofed cops in their Police Squad TV show and Naked Gun movie series) set the tone for a generation of movie silliness. Their coolest inspiration: casting "serious" actors, like Lloyd Bridges and Peter Graves, who spat out the ludicrous dialogue in flawless deadpan. Bridges: "Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up sniffing glue." Graves (to young boy): "Joey, have you ever been to a Turkish prison...