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...three specialists, Dr. Morton N. Swartz, professor of Medicine; Dr. Louis Weinstein, visiting professor of Medicine, and Dr. Alexander D. Langmuir '31, visiting professor of Epidemiology, were part of a panel of seven invited by the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta to review data on the Legionnaires' disease there...
...Langmuir said the panel left Atlanta two weeks ago with no "coherent" theory about the cause or spread of the disease. "To be this much in the dark when you have a lifetime of experience is rather embarrassing," he added...
...little of all of these, but curiously - Wilson, after all, is now 60 - it reads more like the early Waugh-Huxley novel the author never got to write. In spirit it may well be his most youthful book. As with Huxley, there is an "idea" at bottom. Hamo Langmuir, a famous British plant breeder, is off on a VIP tour to see how his hybrid rice, nicknamed "Magic," is faring as England's gift to the Green Revolution. Hamo's goddaughter, Alexandra, is following rather the same route. Hers is the sort of pilgrimage 21-year-old girls...
Peter D. Kazaras of Adams House, Charles H. Langmuir II of Adams, Andrew S. Narva of Dunster House, and Scott N. Wolfe of Leverett House have been awarded Shaw Fellowships for a year of European travel...
...Langmuir might have taken a tip from Weill, whom songs generally make their points by threatening to become happy, lyrical jazz just before they turn irretrievably sour. The opera's overture--a sort of bitter chorale in which the saxophones seems to be playing Bach just a little out of tune--sets the mood, and then things really get underway with the Moritat, better known as "Mack the Knife." If you have only heard Mantovani versions, you can have no idea what bite this song has. Stephen Schmidt, the conductor, puts it across beautifully, although the band has an occasional...