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...largest single Federal grant, of $682, 491, was awarded to support the Anesthesiology Center for Research and Training. The smallest grant, $417, went to Dr. David T. Armstrong, assistant professor of Anatomy in the School of Dentistry, to help support a study of ovarian metabolism and steroid biosynthesis...
...Leness remains as chief executive. But since Merrill Lynch has a mandatory retirement age of 65, Chairman Leness will step out late this year and turn his title over to Thomson. When Thomson retires a year after that, Regan will step in to run the world's largest investment house...
...drive their own cars off the export markets, they might never have given him the job. By last week, when Nordhoff died of a heart attack at 69, Wolfsburg had grown from a hamlet to a bustling city of 85,000 as home base for West Germany's largest industry. With assembly plants from Africa to Australia, the bug was the new Model T, a ubiquitous symbol of the West German economic resurrection. Although Italy's Fiat last summer overtook VW as the world's fourth biggest automaker (behind the U.S. Big Three), Volkswagen's total...
...running Opel's new truck factory in Brandenburg, largest in Europe. Though he turned out 3,000 to 4,000 trucks a month for the wartime German army, he refused to join the Nazi Party. Even so, U.S. occupiers after V-E day decided that he had risen too high as an executive under Hitler, and effectively canceled his career-until the British invited him to Wolfsburg...
...Board of Education and the one-man one-vote Reynolds v. Sims were both class actions. And the practice is now likely to grow more common. The reason is a 2-to-l decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York City on what may be the largest class action ever brought to recover damages...