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...draft: "As the early Christians showed, a prophetic minority sometimes shows more insight than a silent majority." Still, the tendency of a commission is to seek consensus since, without a unanimous report, its members know that their work will have little impact. Moreover, as ancient philosophers discovered, an extended symposium on human affairs is a powerful way of getting at the truth. Lloyd Cutler, executive director of the Violence Commission, puts it this way: "A commission is an educational process for everybody. When you get people together for a year or two and expose them to the facts, the facts...
...only 481 Ibs. of lunar rocks and dust. But even that small sampling from the Sea of Tranquillity has been enough to keep 142 scientists in the U.S., Canada, Japan, Australia and Western Europe fully occupied in their laboratories since late last summer. In Houston last week, at a symposium sponsored by NASA, the lunar investigators finally took time out from their work to report on what they had learned so far. Their findings add a vast store of fresh knowledge about the earth's nearest celestial neighbor, but leave unanswered most of the puzzling questions about the moon...
...addition to Tuttle and Weinrub, two other Harvard scientists, David J. Jhirad, instructor in Astronomy, and Richard J. Paul, a graduate student at the Medical School, presented papers at the student symposium...
Addressing an audience of more than 300 people, the Harvard and M.I.T. students in the symposium first showed slides of pollution and weapons while playing Dylan and Beatles recordings such as "Happiness Is a Warm...
...student groups, however, were divided in their tactics. The Columbia Ecology Action Collective vigorously attacked speakers' personal backgrounds as well as their symposium statements. "They came in cold and used a lot of smear tactics," commented one moderate student leader. "We like to think we did our homework and tried to argue on their [the scientists'] terms," he said...