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Early yesterday morning the Soviet team participated in a symposium on the state health care in the United States, headed by Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Medical School, and David H. Rutstein, a professor of Medicine...
...symposium was followed by a morning of meetings in the Medical Area, and an afternoon of tours of medical-facilities in the Boston area...
This is the chilling conclusion of a symposium in the November issue of Harvard Magazine. In it, five arms-control experts judge that some nuclear wars are likely to occur before this century's end. The five are: Schelling, a professor of political economy; Biochemist Paul Doty, head of Harvard's Science in International Affairs program; Physicist Richard Garwin; Chemist George Kistiakowsky, a former executive of the Manhattan Project; and M.I.T. Political Scientist George Rathjens, formerly a special assistant to the director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency...
...Dinos" grew more famous in the 1960s, he began holding his annual Delos symposium, a week-long Aegean cruise to which he would invite 30 or so distinguished thinkers. A typical guest list would include the likes of Inventor Buckminster Fuller, Historian Arnold Toynbee, Industrialist Robert O. Anderson, Economist Barbara Ward and Media Guru Marshall McLuhan. It was, Anthropologist Margaret Mead once said, the closest thing to the great English house parties of the turn of the century-stimulating talk in an informal atmosphere...
Jerusalem and scores of others. The weekly invitation was no longer to a par ty but to a symposium. The change was not without its dangers...