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...PROBLEM, IN A WORK, is political. As usual, it's taken a crisis of sorts to prompt any action. With Three Mile Island fresh in their minds, people in the United States cringe at anything labelled 'nuclear' or 'radioactive.' "When you mention radioactivity," explains Dr. Warren E. C. Wacker, director of University Health Services, "everybody goes into orbit." As City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci's election eve hysteria in Cambridge indicates, waste disposal is a political hot potato. "Nuclear hysteria," volunteers Dr. Ralph R. DiSibio, Nevada director of human resources, "is spreading...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Wasting Away | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

Back at Harvard, officials are worried that their new solution wouldn't last. Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of the University Health Services (UHS), said yesterday the University, via Interex, will keep shipping its wastes out Texas way for "as long as Todd will accept...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Waste Not, Want Not | 10/27/1979 | See Source »

...Warren E.C. Wacker, director of the University Health Services and Oliver Professor of Hygiene, lives up at South House. Sometimes, he says, the papers don't make it up there in time. "If they do," he adds, "I read them--including The Crimson." If they don't come, however, Wacker says "one still has to while away the time": he's currently at work on "Paul Scott's thing about India...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Toilet Papers | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...Warren E.C. Wacker, director of University Health Services, said yesterday the major danger is not the waste's radioactivity but its flammability...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: City Council to Examine Waste Disposal Questions | 10/16/1979 | See Source »

...Tally Wacker band is hopelessly incompetent, and the women of the whorehouse would only excite, well, Texans. The Aggie chorus line is the hottest thing north of San Antone, but performs only one number (you may have seen it on the Tony awards--it was the one with all the embarrassing bleeps). Whorehouse makes up for its adult language with gleeful immaturity, unabashedly the source of the play's success. Remember, this is the land of Lone Star beer and the Dallas Cowpeople--how can you get serious about...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Dead Solid Texas | 10/9/1979 | See Source »

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