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...tape of the meeting of the Generalissimo and General Joseph W. Stilwell, even with Chinese and English expletives deleted, would be monumental and would surpass any produced in the Oval Room concerning Watergate. Burrows Sloan Jr. Princeton...
...number of collectors began to multiply, Bill Sloan, a rancher from Saginaw, Texas, decided that he could profit from the hobby. He began by selling $5 barbed bracelets, then abandoned that scheme when he received barbed remarks from women with knit dresses. But he has sold 14,000 sets of six swizzle sticks ($12.50) fashioned out of 24-karat, gold-plated barbed wire...
...from the same pool of National Institute of Health and American Cancer Society grants, and he himself had sponsored the articles in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, America's equivalent of the Royal Society. Watson's New York friends, he admitted, had caught wind of "another Sloan-Kettering affair" (an April 1974 incident in which a cancer researcher named Summerlin at Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York was caught tampering with skin-graft data, and given a psychiatric leave) at Harvard...
...least some help in remedying the deficiency. We have just announced a fellowship program, to begin in the fall, carefully designed to provide eight journalists annually with a sophisticated knowledge of the tools and methods of economic analysis. The program, initiated and supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, will be housed at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. It will be a yearlong, highly structured program with much of the material particularly designed to meet journalistic requirements...
...final season, Eric played only a token ten minutes. After that he returned to his deadlier contest in the Ewing Eight ward of the Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in Manhattan. He had been in and out of the ward since the beginning of his illness. To his friends there-an old woman with no larynx, a boy with no jaw, a man whose flesh had wasted away, and one or two people his own age-he became an un-defeatable rallying point. He mocked doom by plotting "jail breaks" and rebellion against the staff. He laughed at cancer...