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Myles L. Mace, professor of business administration emeritus, said yesterday, "Dean David combined the experience of a business executive with the attributes of a scholar...
Scholars lined up on both sides of the nuclear debate. George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus, told crowds at Sunday's rally that the Harrisburg plant had released harmful radiation. "There is no threshold; any radiation is dangerous," Wald said...
George B. Kistiakowsky, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, called nuclear energy "about the safest operation in the United States," and stressed that there have been no fatalities from peaceful use of nuclear technology. He added, though, that accidents like the one at Three Mile Island were inevitable because of the complexity of nuclear technology and the profit-seeking motives of the utilities that control...
They said of Joseph Levenson when he died, "He showed how a lifetime of effort might yield really nourishing answers, but transcending his speciality is what he contributed to humanistic knowledge generally." John K. Fairbank, Higginson Professor of History Emeritus, Levenson's Harvard undergraduate tutor and graduate advisor, rendered final judgdment: "Joe's was no ordinary career--its record is that of genius at work...
George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus told the crowd that federal and state officials were "crazy" not to evacuate residents within a five mile radius of the Three Mile Island nuclear facility in Pennsylvania...