Word: sloane
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Before being chosen as president on the retirement of John Sloan Dickey, a master builder who had quintupled Dartmouth's endowment to $114 million, Kemeny was widely regarded as a near genius in the field of computers and math. Now 46, he is the son of a grain dealer from Budapest who fled Nazi anti-Semitism to settle in New York in 1940. A star student in advanced math and philosophy at Princeton, Kemeny was drafted to work on the Manhattan Project, and later became Albert Einstein's assistant. In 1953, when he was 27 and a teacher...
...announced a $2 million grant yesterday for the establishment of a joint program in the management of technology at the Business School and MIT's Sloan School of Management...
Richard S. Rosenbloom '54, director of the Doctoral Program at the Business School, and Donald G. Marquis, director of the Sloan School's Research Program on Management of Science and Technology, will occupy the newly created chairs...
...Competitiveness becomes more pronounced in Western Europe and is rampant in the U.S. Whether a player plays the board or against his opponent becomes a finespun argument in the tens of thousands of chess games that are always in progress by mail. Biochemist Aaron Bendich, of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute, summarizes his motivation: "I play as an intellectual exercise, and I don't see my opponent as an adversary. But there is an adversary-and that's me! If I lose and allow myself to get angry with my opponent, I am really projecting onto...
...known as "the plumbers," because they were assigned to investigate the source of leaks to the press like that of the Pentagon papers. Indeed, an office that Liddy worked out of for a time was whimsically adorned with a sign saying PLUMBER. Another former White House aide, Hugh W. Sloan Jr., became treasurer of the C.R.P.'s finance committee last spring, then quit abruptly on July 14 as the FBI pushed its investigation...