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...spirit and support structure of the risk culture can be hard to duplicate. Starting a successful new business requires a unique combination of characteristics that has little to do with geography. John Welsh and Jerry White of Southern Methodist University's Caruth Institute of Owner-Managed Business have studied the personality traits of risk takers. Chief among them are self-confidence, vision and the need to be in charge. Indeed, many have been frustrated at larger companies. Says White: "Entrepreneurs have a fundamental need to control their own destiny. Seldom can they find this in someone else...
When the World Airways DC-10 skidded off the runway at Logan International Airport and into Boston Harbor, the aircraft's nose section was sheared off like the tip of a roughly clipped cigar. Don Welsh, 25, a dental student at Tufts University, who was seated in the front cabin, suddenly found himself covered with spray and looking out at the harbor. Soon he and other passengers were pulling the flight crew out of the water. Welsh saw someone splashing ten or 20 yards to his left, well out of his reach. Then the person disappeared. Welsh told...
...10th century, cats were established as mousers. The Welsh defined the legal worth of cats: a seasoned mouser, astonishingly enough, brought four pennies, about the worth of a lamb. By the 17th century, however, the devil, unwelcome and omnipresent, had been doing his worst through the feline. In 1699, for instance, at the Swedish town of Mora, 300 children were accused of employing demon cats to steal butter, cheese and bacon. Fifteen of the children were killed, and every Sunday for a year, 36 were whipped before the church doors. By the mid-18th century, the cat was back...
...French pot-au-feu. Even shepherd's pie, particularly in Garmey's jazzed-up version, can be a treat. Indeed, a number of traditional dishes are in danger of becoming fashionable. Among them: lemony Sussex Pond pudding; Hindle Wakes, a prune-flavored cold poached chicken dish; Welsh onion cake and cockie leekie (chicken-leek) soup; chicken stovies, a succulent Scottish stew; syllabub, the English answer to zabaglione...
Gail Hurst, a teacher for twelve years in San Diego, transferred out of a DISTAR program after three months. Says she: "I didn't like the robot, parroting answers the students had to give. " Yet DlSTAR's striking results led San Diego Superior Court Judge Louis Welsh last year to request the program to help upgrade minority schools. Joan Gutkin, Follow Through coordinator at New York's P.S. 1 37, points out that 70% of her second-graders in 1980 scored above the 50th percentile on the California Achievement Test, in contrast to only...