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Volcker, nominated by President Carter on Wednesday, is known as a believer in "sound money," and as a fiscal conservative who would probably accept temporary increases in the numbers of unemployed if he could decrease the rate of inflation, Warren Law, Converse Professor of Finance and Banking, said yesterday...
Martin Feldstein, professor of Economics, echoing the majority view, called the nomination a "first-rate appointment...
...than the respect the group commands in government and business circles--is the Project's pragmatic, multidisciplinary examination of the energy problem. The group scrutinizes not only the economic and technical barriers to exploitation of energy each source, but also the political and institutional realities. Co-editors Robert Stobaugh, professor of Business Administration and director of the Project, and Daniel Yergin, lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government, write...
...year 2000. The Project is not referring to massive, multibillion dollar power stations in space which beam electricity back to earth via microwave (a NASA pet project): rather, it is talking about solar house and hot water heating, windmills, wood burning and hydraulic power. Modeste A. Maidique, assistant professor at the Business School, writes...
DIED. Robert B. Woodward, 62, a Harvard professor for four decades who won the 1965 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work in organic synthesis; of a heart attack; in Cambridge, Mass. A child prodigy who experimented in his basement lab at home, Woodward entered M.I.T. at 16, got his B.S. at 19 and Ph.D. at 20. In 1937 he joined the Harvard faculty and in 1944 synthesized the antimalarial drug quinine, a project he had worked on since his teens. He then synthesized cholesterol, cortisone, several antibiotics and chlorophyll and, in 1972, vitamin B12, at that time the most...