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...generation had an opportunity unique in the history of American industry," wrote Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. two years ago in his memoirs. Of all men of any generation, few have made more of their opportunities than...
...president of General Motors Corp. from 1923 to 1937, as board chairman until 1956 and as G.M.'s still active honorary chairman until the day of his death, at 90, last week, Sloan was a towering figure of U.S. industry. Under him, G.M. grew from a frail follower of Ford into the world's largest and most profitable corporation. As much as any other individual, Sloan shaped the auto industry, which itself reshaped the entire U.S. economy and, in Sloan's words, changed "the pace and style of everyday life in America...
Reflecting on the fact that some of the drugs that work so dramatically in Africa are also the best known weapons against leukemia. Dr. Joseph H. Burchenal of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute, said: "I am strongly persuaded that there is a close affinity between Burkitt's tumor and leukemia." But he was careful to note the difference in the effects of treatment. "The results here are really fantastic," he said. "There is nothing like this anywhere in the world. Long survivals, including apparent cure, after drug treatment for Burkitt's lymphoma are running...
...Tide won all ten regular-season games and were voted the nation's No. 1 team-only to lose to Texas in the Orange Bowl. This season the Associated Press shrewdly decided to wait until the bowl-game results were in before issuing its final rankings. With Steve Sloan hitting on 20 out of 29 passes, Alabama coasted to a 39-28 victory-and won its second straight national championship...
...weeks ago the faculty at M.I.T.'s Alfred P. Sloan School of Management held a fine farewell party for Dean Howard Wesley Johnson, 43, who was leaving to become executive vice president of Cincinnati's Federated Department Stores, Inc. Now the professors are kidding Johnson that he really ought to hand back that silver tea service they presented to him as a going-away gift. M.I.T.'s committee on succession turned around and named Johnson, a specialist in industrial relations and executive development, as M.I.T.'s new president, to succeed retiring Physicist Julius Stratton...