Saturn Chief Has Cardiac Arrest

Joseph Sanchez, who landed General Motors Corp.’s most important new job two weeks ago as head of the Saturn car project, suffered cardiac arrest today, and a hospital listed his prognosis as “grave.”

Sanchez, 54, who speaks three languages and has been described as one of GM’s most talented executives, was stricken before dawn in Sparrow Hospital, where he had been since suffering a heart attack Tuesday. The hospital said in a statement that Sanchez was “successfully resuscitated, but is now in critical condition.”