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Under the headline "Four Professors Cancel Lectures in Protest of 'Misuse of Science,'" you reported on 28 February that I am one of "four Harvard scientists who have decided to scrap their regular course lectures on March 4," and would replace the "regular technical material next Tuesday with discussions of the relationship of science to society...
Four Harvard scientists have decided to scrap their regular course lectures on March 4 in sympathy with a nationwide research stoppage protesting the misuse of science...
...issue was made even more confusing by a Navy intelligence expert, Captain John H. D. Williams. He maintained that every scrap of classified paper on Pueblo, all 2,000 pounds of it, could and should have been destroyed. Williams said that the entire crew should have been released from general quarters to carry the material into one nonessential compartment. There it could have been doused in gasoline and burned. An icy, self-assured officer, Williams made it clear that in his opinion Bucher and Harris had all the destruction equipment they needed. All that was missing was the ingenuity...
...assailed by such temptations of existential heroism. For the most part, the U.S. serviceman fights hard, risks his life and sometimes gives it in the service of his country. It seems unreasonable to ask him to continue risking his life in prison merely to avoid signing a scrap of paper that nobody takes very seriously anyway...
...metalwork was his business. When he saw the mobiles in Shingu's Roman studio, he invited Shingu to come back to Japan and live and work in his shipyard, where there would be plenty of welders and painters to help him-to say nothing of unlimited amounts of scrap steel to work with...