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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chicago's camera-making Bell & Howell Co. believes that "youth must be served'' the top jobs. Twelve years ago, Bell & Howell promoted 29-year-old Charles H. Percy into the presidency to shake the company out of its stodgy ways. Percy diversified Bell & Howell's product line, boosted sales from $13 million to $114 million last year. Last week Chuck Percy, now a ripe 41, moved up to board chairman (keeping, however, the title of chief executive officer). His successor is another bright young man in a hurry: Executive Vice President Peter G. Peterson...
...throat to cure the cough. What many feel to be irresponsibility on Phillips' part is not the fault of the Council. When a question as serious as that raised by the Dunster referendum is involved, it is incumbent on all concerned to ascertain that their motives are not the product of personal distaste for the Council President...
...were writing of our rebel training sites, and the French press has been discussing the impending invasion. The only group in the world ignorant of American government activities in Guatemala and Florida has been the American public, which was told that Castro's hoarse cries of invasion were the product of a deranged mind. With the possible exception of one or two New York Times dispatches, the American press voluntarily sold its readers the government's bill of goods on Cuba. Even the Hearstian exaggerations of the rebels' strength were undoubtedly just what the CIA and the rebels themselves wanted...
...estimate that the offer, if translated into law, would involve an annual loss of $1.7 billion in Government revenue. At the same time, the tax credit could prove to be a sharp-pointed spur to the economy: it is designed to provide a $5 billion boost in gross national product during the first year-and to create 500,000 new jobs...
...element maker, Albert Ghiorso, 45, has a Berkeley B.S. in electrical engineering, but he got into longhair physics by a back door. Son of a Vallejo, Calif, riveter, he went to work for a local electronics manufacturer and designed a successful commercial Geiger counter. While selling and servicing his product, he came in contact with the Radiation Lab, was fascinated, and got a job there. Working with top scientists, Ghiorso listened hard, and in the informal classroom he absorbed a higher education in higher physics. "I grew up with atomic energy," he says lightly...