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...Warren Weaver, science consultant to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, has estimated that the billions earmarked for Apollo could be redistributed to provide "a 10% raise in salary, over a ten-year period, for every teacher in the United States, from kindergarten through universities (about $9.8 billion required); $10 million each to 200 of the better smaller colleges ($2 billion required); seven-year fellowships (freshman through Ph.D.) at $4,000 per person per year for 50,000 new scientists and engineers ($1.4 billion required); contributions of $200 million each toward the creation of ten new medical schools ($2 billion required...
Alfred P. Sloan Jr., the General Motors genius who championed the idea of the annual model change, once wrote: "The changes in the new models should be so novel as to create a certain amount of dissatisfaction with past models." In today's inflationary economy, there is a certain amount of dissatisfaction among automakers that the annual changes add so much to their bills for tooling and marketing. The consumerism movement has also made customers more concerned about prices and less interested in change for the sake of change. Last week G.M. announced that its new subcompact car, which...
...SLOAN NIBLEY North Hollywood, Calif...
...group, organized by Yale Chaplain William Sloan Coffin, cited what they called "incomplete" arrangements for marshals and the absence of a clear chain of command, adding that "the possibility of disorder seems significantly greater" than in other demonstrations-such as the October Moratorium-which have taken place in New Haven...
...Alfred P. Sloan...