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...present at a Bell & Howell foremen's meeting in the late 1950s at which Chuck Percy spelled out employee racial integration in vigorous terms (and over a few dead bodies). My family and I benefited substantially from the comprehensive employee medical coverage that this Christian Scientist fostered. His success in meeting low-cost foreign competition with quality amateur movie equipment-while paying factory help scale or better-was a milestone in U.S. business. His performance prior to and during this year's convention may well have seemed vacillating, but he has to win the Illinois governorship against...
...Scientist for Liberal Arts...
...Greater emphasis will be placed on the newer social sciences, and there will be more stress on science to show the non-scientist the intellectual achievement of science in a more flexible general education program," Ford said...
...Jeanne Dickerson, daughter of a Chicago plumbing contractor. They had three children-twin girls and a boy. Percy meanwhile had returned to Bell & Howell, become McNabb's right-hand man and been named to the board of directors-at 23. In 1947 Jeanne, who was not a Christian Scientist, underwent an operation for ulcerative colitis that was deemed successful. Still, her doctors recommended a second operation. This one brought on complications. Jeanne was given penicillin, to which she suffered adverse reactions. Other drugs were tried, but to no avail. After his wife died, Chuck agreed to an autopsy. According...
...Game & the Stakes. For three decades now, the behind-the-scenes play of politics, personalities and principles in the British Establishment has been Sir Charles Percy Snow's chief subject and growing obsession, in both fiction and nonfiction. Himself thoroughly experienced both as a Cambridge scientist and a Whitehall administrator, he has made it disturbingly clear to millions that the motives of men of power are mixed and unpredictable, that even right decisions are often taken for trivial reasons, that even upright and intelligent men are often helpless to defeat inertia or change the results of the system...