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...city of Boston will file suit against Harvard-staffed Beth Israel Hospital in a few weeks for Beth Israel's continued use of the name Thorndike for its major research laboratory, a name held for the past 75 years by the major lab in Boston City Hospital, Herbert P. Gleason '50 Boston's Corporation Counsel said yesterday...
...Gleason said that in spite of repeated requests from the city, Harvard has continued to use the Thorndike name, associated with Nobel-prize winning research on pernicious anemia, for its own research in Beth Israel...
...committee of the AFL-CIO maritime unions, which are threatening to boycott the Soviet shipment, met with Butz to protest the sales. "This sounds like the 1972 rip-off all over again, and we won't stand for it," said the Longshoremen's Thomas Gleason, referring to the Soviet purchase of 19 million tons of U.S. grain three summers ago. "Nobody is going to be ripped off," Butz assured the seamen. Said Don Woodward, president of the National Association of Wheat Growers: "It's the criticism of these sales to the Russians that'll bring...
...almost $200 million expended over the past year just to buy U.S. earth-moving machinery. In other instances, the Soviets have suggested to U.S. sellers that a deal be made through an American subsidiary in a country where low-interest government-guaranteed credit is readily available. For example, the Gleason Works of Rochester, N.Y., arranged credits for a $14 million sale of machine tools and production technology through its Belgian subsidiary...
...plot serves as its stage, and they walk all over it. The characters of Oscar and Nicky have been pieced together with bits not only from Laurel and Hardy, the first two-man comedy act, but from all of their successors: Hope and Cresby, Abbott and Costello, Carney and Gleason, and Nichols's own broad way pair, the Odd Couple. All of these teams run on the same fuel--the big, ponderous straight-man who masterminds the operation always blowing up at the little dumb one, who muffs everything but stumbles on brilliant ideas through his wit. One's neat...