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...spaceflight before they attempted to send a rocket to the moon. They have no such unified store of fundamental knowledge about cancer. Says Columbia University Researcher Sol Spiegelman: "An effort to cure cancer at this time might be like trying to land a man on the moon without knowing Newton's laws of motion." A better-funded research effort could help science to understand more about the many diseases that are cancer. But until that groundwork is done, any talk of curing cancer may well raise false hopes-and lead to disappointment...
Equally remarkable light-pieces were developed by Newton Harrison (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and Rockne Krebs (Hewlett-Packard Co.). Harrison's room is dark, and in it stand five tall plastic cylinders. They are filled with helium, argon and other gases. When an electric current passes through the cylinders, the ionized gas lights up-rose-white, orange, deep blues, greens and purples. By controlling the gas flow, Harrison produces extraordinary changes of form in the light-bubbles, disks, even artificial lightning. The effect is solemn and exquisitely meditative; it is also wholly pictorial, without a hint of gimmickry. The room...
Articles by less famous polemicists have also had considerable impact. From exile in Algiers, Black Panther Richard Moore wrote a piece accusing Panther Huey P. Newton of substituting slogans for action, castigating the Times as "the organ of the ruling class" and condemning the "Fascist Farce of a Trial Presided over by the evil likes of [Judge] John Murtagh," from whose court Moore had fled. As the Times clearly intended, its Op-Ed has provided an occasional beam of fresh light on familiar topics. Edward C. Banfield, a professor of government at Harvard, described "the lower class" as not necessarily...
Leonard also serves on several national committees concerned with the progress of minority groups, and he advises on minority issues for the Association of American Law Schools and the Law School Admissions Test Council. Locally, he is a member of the Newton Fair Housing Committee...
Representative Sam Gibbons of Florida complained that the bill allots money to a city in proportion to the amount of tax revenue the city raises. This means that heavily taxed but not so needy cities would get more aid than impoverished communities whose tax base has steadily eroded. Comfortable Newton, Mass, (pop. 91,066), would get $1,527,668 v. only $821,964 for decaying New Bedford (pop. 101,777). "This formula doesn't do anything but put money where the wealth is," said Gibbons. When Ohio's Charles Vanik argued that the 25 largest cities...