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...Every Opening. Awed by G.M.'s effectiveness, many another U.S. corporation has tried to emulate the Sloan system-but rarely with comparable success. One reason is that few other companies can match the planning and control system installed at G.M. by Vice President Donaldson Brown just a year before Donner was hired. The Brown system of constant reports-which permits G.M. to forecast for three months in advance every detail of its operations from auto production to profit margins-has for 37 years kept G.M.'s profits moving up at a planned pace in relation to sales...
...Helene W. Toolan of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute reported that two viruses which had previously been found in human cancer have now been found in human embryos (from spontaneous abortions, or "miscarriages"). To rule out contamination in the Sloan-Kettering lab, parts of the same embryos were examined in London, where British workers isolated one of the two viruses...
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...title of the address at the University of Virginia had a ring of scientific heresy: "Heritance of Acquired Characteristics." Yet the speaker was an eminent researcher. Dr. Frank L. Horsfall Jr., director of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute. What he did, pulling together recent research from a number of laboratories, was to show that...
...evident damage until they are stimulated by chemicals or X rays. The important thing is that these nucleic-acid molecules can be infective by themselves, with no assist from the protein that normally accompanies them in the whole virus. Dr. Frank L. Horsfall, director of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute, the world's biggest private cancer research organization, sums it up: "We can now speak of infectious molecules in animal as well as plant diseases-something that was inconceivable only a decade...