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...complaint that only the professional schools, which are specifically intended to teach techniques, are doing an adequate job at Harvard now. But even they might benefit from additional philosophical input. Is the medical school, for instance, giving adequate attention to the medical philosophy of the school of Cos (where Hippocrates practiced), which emphasized, as today's nutritionists and vitamin therapists do, the harmony of the body with its environment and of its several elements among themselves?...or is it too much mired in the philosophy of the school of Cnidos, which saw medicine as the exorcising of demons (done today...
...February 1973 the court failed to sustain a Government challenge to the merger of Denver's First National Bancorporation and the First National Bank of Greeley, Colo., and in March it permitted General Dynamics Corp. to acquire United Electric Coal Cos. of Illinois. Last week, in what many lawyers and businessmen regard as a decisive turn in the court's attitude, it voted 5 to 3 to let two banks in the state of Washington merge...
...Douglas Aircraft from going under; later, Partner Howard S. Kniffin helped Boise Cascade spin off a number of enterprises in mobile homes and chemicals that were doing little for it but lose money. Meyer, still active at 75, last week headed off a threatened proxy fight at the Signal Cos. (shipping, Mack trucks, radio stations, the California Angels baseball team) by getting an Italian investment group to buy a major interest...
...subteen set also wants records: the Osmond Brothers, David Cassidy, The Jackson 5, Andy and David Williams, and the Carpenters. Unlike their hard-rock counterparts, the young idols come on as shy homebodies, and their songs tend to be sweet and wholesome, like Rick Springfield's latest: "Cos having someone believe in me,/ Is all I need to know...
...roster of women on big corporate boards also includes Chicago Lawyer Jewel Stradford Lafontant, a director of TWA and the Jewel Cos. grocery chain; and Girl Scouts Executive Director Cecily Cannan Selby, who is on the Avon and RCA boards. Last week Metropolitan Life Insurance named Barnard College President Martha E. Peterson for a directorship. They and other women who join boards are acquiring power in two ways. Aside from gaining the prestige and authority that have always gone with the job, directors of all companies today are being forced to take more active roles in company decisions. In several...