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...council, which also summoned the school committee for a joint session in early September to discuss the business education curriculum, asked the Harvard Business School and MIT's Sloan School of Management to study the business and computer training curriculum at the city's Rindge and Latin High School...
...year-old MacArthur Foundation is the creation of the late John D. MacArthur, an eccentric who became a billionaire in the insurance business. With assets estimated at $862 million, the foundation is the nation's fourth largest, surpassing Rockefeller, Carnegie and Sloan, trailing only the Ford, Robert Wood Johnson and Andrew W. Mellon foundations. The rationale for the no-string fellowships is the argument that important breakthroughs in the past have been the work of lone geniuses devoid of grantsmanship. Said Foundation Director J. Roderick MacArthur, 60, John's son, in accepting the proposal: "My father believed...
DeVita's conclusion is based on studies of 156 patients at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA and the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center in Tucson. The patients had advanced cancers, usually of the lung, breast, colon and rectum, that could no longer be treated by standard methods. Laetrile was given intravenously for 21 days, then orally three times daily...
...arsonists and, worse still, jerks, clowns and buffoons. With the exception of Margaret Pynchon, the gracious owner of the Los Angeles Tribune on Lou Grant, nowhere on prime time is there anyone remotely resembling such constructive businessmen as Joseph C. Wilson of Xerox, Edwin Land of Polaroid, Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors or Thomas Watson of IBM. Is art reflecting life? Or is art looking for handy villains to make stories move between commercials...
...which they were fighting. Potential adjustment problems were exacerbated by the divisive mood of the country when the soldiers came home. That ambivalence persists: the return of the Iranian hostages and the attendant celebrations made many Viet Nam veterans agonize anew over their status as social outcasts. Says Lee Sloan, associate director of the study: "They got blamed for losing. They got blamed for going. They got blamed for the atrocities...