Word: wackers
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...Warren E.C. Wacker, director of University Health Services, told the council and an audience of more than 100 that "the chief danger from these wastes is that the chemicals they are dissolved in are flammable. The levels of radioactivity are comparable to nature," he added...
...Wacker said Harvard officials had set October 19 as the cutoff date for research but had been able to find an alternate dumping site in time to prevent any research shutdown...
...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...
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...
...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...