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...very building where the mysterious Legionnaires' Disease may have been contracted, doctors last week gathered for a symposium, eating lunch and sipping beverages, apparently unconcerned about being stricken with the deadly malady. The physicians had assembled in Philadelphia's Bellevue Stratford Hotel not as an act of reckless bravado but to exchange all the latest information about the cause of the ailment that left 29 people dead and struck 151 others last summer after an American Legion convention at the hostelry...
...final session of the symposium of Action for Children's Television (ACT), speakers suggested censorship in advertising and advocated that the networks take responsibility for providing appropriate subject material for children...
...national symposium, entitled "Products and Programs: The Child as Consumer," is sponsored by ACT and the Harvard Graduate School of Education...
...shouldn't be surprised at what happened tonight," Robert Allen, chairman of the symposium, said last night...
These days most politicians are happy to call themselves conservative, and liberalism has become the sin that dares not speak its name. The September issue of Commentary in a symposium called "What Is a Liberal-Who Is a Conservative?" provides a useful guide to the semantic bedlam. Most of the 64 contributing intellectuals were once content to call themselves liberal. Now they fastidiously invoke qualifiers. They speak of early and late liberals, paleoliberals, center extremists, tough-minded liberals, of "rad-libs" and "trad-libs...