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...Committee, chaired by Henry K. Beeches, Dorr Professor of Anesthesiology Emeritus, was convened in 1968 to formulate a new definition of death to replace the classic Black's Law Dictionary (written in 1891) which says a person may be considered dead when he stops breathing and his heart stops beating...
...crisis in the family has implications that extend far beyond the walls of the home. "No society has ever survived after its family life deteriorated," warns Dr. Paul Popenoe, founder of the American Institute of Family Relations. Harvard Professor Emeritus Carle Zimmerman has stated the most pessimistic view: "The extinction of faith in the familistic system is identical with the movements in Greece during the century following the Peloponnesian Wars, and in Rome from about A.D. 150. In each case the change in the faith and belief in family systems was associated with rapid adoption of negative reproduction rates...
Arthur E. Sutherland, professor emeritus of constitutional law at Harvard, proposed yesterday a federal law against the "manufacture, importation, possession and sale of ammunition and rearms of any description...
Speaking before 200 people, Griswold, Langdell Professor of Law, emeritus, and dean of Law School from 1946 to 1967, said. "I hope that there will not be too much yielding to student demands forrelevance. This is, I am inclined to think, a part of that same pressure of The Mass for mediocrity...
...While minimizing the vices of the totalitarian leaders, Cold War revisionists invariably exaggerate the shortcomings of American statesmen. This requires something approaching a conspiracy theory of history. How else explain the fact that U.S. leaders are always doing what they say they are not doing? D. F. Fleming, professor emeritus of Vanderbilt University (The Cold War and Its Origins}, and David Horowitz (Empire and Revolution), onetime director of research for the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, accuse the U.S. of having followed a deliberate policy of intimidating Russia. As evidence, they cite events from the Allied intervention in the Russian...