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...cancer drug named Krebiozen. A refugee physician from Yugoslavia, Dr. Stevan Durovic, said that he extracted it from the blood of specially inoculated horses in Argentina and brought it to the U.S. in 1949. Its first trials on human patients were made by Chicago's famous Physiologist Andrew Conway Ivy, who announced what he considered promising results in March...
...Gordon. He was already under sharp fire in the Commons for the way he had called in outside help to prepare his budget. Despite the usual strict rules on budget secrecy, he had help from three private businessmen-Martin O'Connell, a specialist in municipal finance, Geoffry R. Conway, a tax accountant, and David Stanley, an investment analyst. Opposition sharpshooters pounced on this indiscretion...
...Conway said that in Harvard's "reconcilement" of aristocracy and democracy was "the best expression of the noblest side of the American dream." He said the synthesis of the two is "related to all of the country and essential for an understanding...
...Conway warned, there are also dangers implicit in the College's world. He described Harvard as a place that he wished "were less competitive and much less tense." He quoted Thomas Aquinas' teaching that the end of action is contemplation. He said that the University has not completely escaped "the impingement of commercial and industrial values on what should be a contemplative life essentially critical of secular values...
Another danger in Harvard's world--and one which Conway traced directly to the freedom he described--is that of "paralysis of the will, of a growing and hardening reluctance to commit oneself." "If the danger of a rigid orthodoxy is a completely closed mind," he asserted, "the danger of our particular kind of liberty is a compete open-mindedness." He said that "the kind of aristocrat Harvard produces has the duty to make his commitment." In the end, he said, "only that will justify our elitism. This wonderful Harvard world becomes a coterie to the extent that its graduates...