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...your issue of Tuesday, March 9, you incorrectly attributed the cancellation of the Physics Department Colloquium to its scheduled speaker, Dr. E. H. Land, President of the Polaroid Corporation. I decided, in consultation with an ad hoc committee of five members of the Department of Physics, to cancel the colloquium when it became clear that conditions permitting a scientific presentation could not be maintained. We deplore the loss to the Harvard community of the opportunity to hear from Dr. Land himself about the latest results in his unique and exciting research on color vision...
About 60 students protesting the Polaroid Corporation's involvement in South Africa yesterday forced Edwin H. Land '29, Polaroid's president and board chairman, to cancel his lecture on "colorvision" at Jefferson Hall near the Law School...
...tough law-and-order security chief who crushed a 1947 Lodz strike in which two workers died and 80 were wounded. The Soviet Union came to Gierek's rescue by offering an estimated $500 million in credits and grain shipments. Buoyed by Soviet help, Gierek was able to cancel the price increases. The Lodz workers went back to work and the rest of the country remained quiet...
...members of Pagliacci Incorporated, always seems on the verge of saying something of size and substance but never gets past the verge. When a playwright says nothing that is fresh, deep, strange, poetic or startling about the business of being human, the frustrating irrelevance of the evening seems to cancel out the apparent signs of theatrical promise. Indeed, a shrine might be erected to all of these fledgling dramatists, and their patron saint would be Our Lady of Perpetual Promise...
...demonstration by 125 members of SDS threatened to cancel the discussion after Jerome S. Bruner, Master of Currier House. was shouted down in his attempts to arrange a meeting between ten SDS members and the deans...