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Survivors include his wife, Ada P. Slichter; two sons, William P. Slichter, of Chatham, a chemist, and Charles F. Slichter, a professor at the University of Illinois in Champaign; and three brothers, Louis B. Slichter of Pasadena, Calif., Allen M. Slichter and Donald E. Slichter, both of Milwaukee...
...more than twelve years, Boston Multimillionaire Joseph P. Kennedy, onetime (1937-40) U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, has contributed heavily (at least $12 million) to research in mental retardation. Last week he made another gift. The Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Memorial Foundation (named for a naval aviator son who was killed in World War II) announced a $1,000,000 donation to Massachusetts General Hospital to set up and maintain a laboratory for research in diseases of the nervous system in infants and children. Principal neurological symptoms to be studied: mental retardation, cerebral palsy...
While U.S. employment stands at a record high of 67.2 million, there are some areas where unemployment is becoming a permanent problem. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell last week classified 70 such U.S. areas as centers of "chronic labor surplus" because unemployment has been at least 50% higher than the national average over four of the past five years. Of the 3,426,000 workers idle in August, Mitchell estimated that 500,000 were in the 70 most distressed areas. Seventeen of the areas, including Detroit, Providence and Charleston, W.Va., were officially labeled as "chronic" for the first time...
...Harvey Gaylord, 55, became president and chief executive officer of Bell Aircraft Corp., succeeding Leston P. Faneuf, president since 1956, who will spend his time laying down broad policy. Buffalo-born Gaylord graduated from Princeton and the American Institute of Banking, left the investment business in 1941 to join Bell as assistant to the president, quickly rose to take over as president of Bell's helicopter subsidiary in Fort Worth in 1951. As president, Gaylord will divide his time between Fort Worth and Buffalo, regroup the company's defense operations in an effort to stem sagging sales...
With the acceptance of five Sloan National Scholars as members of the Class of '63, Harvard has been added to the 32 colleges and universities throughout the country where scholarships are awarded from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation...