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Since 1974, Sagan has rewritten and expanded his attack on Velikovsky for publication in the new book, Scientists Confront Velikovsky. In addition to Sagan's remarks and the transcribed speeches of three other AAAS symposium participants--a sociologist, a statistician, and another astronomer--the collection contains a fresh treatment of Velikovsky by a NASA astronomer. The fact that Velikovsky's contribution--which along with Sagan's speech highlighted the meeting--is missing from the book is at first surprising. However, examination of the history of the Velikovsky controversy and of the publishers' unpublished correspondence with him makes the absence...
...validity of Sagan's arguments is not immediately self-evident, but the post-symposium rebuttal offered by Velikovskyites to Sagan does not seem sufficient to resurrect Worlds in Collision. For instance, the rebuttal, appearing in Pensee states that Sagan had ignored the possibility that the molten state in which he says a comet would be ejected from Jupiter could later serve as a possible source of Velikovsky's hypothetical, captured-comet-turned-planet Venus's heat. Sagan reasonably argues, however, that rather than staying in a molten mass the ejected material "would have been entirely reduced toa train of self...
...coalition of 16 law school student organizations will still conduct a teach-in at Langdell Hall tonight that was announced earlier this month, and two spokesmen for the coalition said yesterday they decided not to cancel the symposium because it will be focused "on the court more than on personality...
Greenberg and representatives of the various student associations participating in the symposium met with Sacks last month to inform the dean of the coalition's activities during the week of Burger's scheduled appearance...
Playing in weather better suited to a duck symposium than a football game, the Harvard J.V. football team handed the Dartmouth squad its second loss in five years yesterday, surfacing to victory...