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...group to duplicate the results have been unsuccessful, raising doubts among scientists about the experiments. In the light of the revelations about Rosenfeld, the April cutoff date seems significant; it suggests to some researchers that news of last spring's fake research scandal at Manhattan's Sloan Kettering Institute (TIME, April 29) may have given pause to anyone tampering with the Harvard experiments...
...second cancerous growth greatly increased her chances for a long life. Discovery of the second malignancy would have been delayed-probably for many months-were it not for a technique developed by her surgeon, Dr. Jerome A. Urban, acting chief of the breast service at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Urban decided a dozen years ago that it might sometimes be wise during a mastectomy to take a sample of tissue (biopsy) from the corresponding position on the other breast and check that for the possibility of what doctors call bilateral disease. Over the years, Urban...
...consumer's loss of faith in the American automobile industry is to some degree the result of Alfred Sloan's theory of salesmanship; "make money, not cars." The former head of General Motors discovered that he could make money by transforming cars from transportation vehicles into emotional symbols. Solan added diversity to the showroom, psychological lures to the sales pitch, status to the concept of auto travel, and price to the price tag. The public is only now beginning to realize how it has been cheated psychologically. This memory will not fade quickly...
...after Betty Ford went through similar surgery. Mrs. Rockefeller had examined herself-just as countless other women did-after Mrs. Ford's illness received wide publicity. The suspicious lump that Mrs. Rockefeller discovered turned out to be malignant, but at week's end doctors at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan announced that she was in excellent condition...
...York State Council of Parks and Outdoor Recreation, a post he has since resigned. He has pushed for bond issues that have helped the state acquire hundreds of thousands of acres of land for parks and recreation. In medical research, Laurance is a founder and chairman of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, parent of the renowned research institute...