Word: wald
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Although McCarthy's candidacy did not receive outright support from any of the pollees, George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, said yesterday he was "toying with the idea of a protest vote." When asked if he supported McCarthy, Wald characterized him as a decent, fine man but an "unreliable candidate...
Kenneth Arrow, Conant University Professor who won a Nobel in 1972, Edward M. Purcell, Gage University Professor who won a Nobel in 1952, and George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology who won the Nobel in 1967, also endorsed the statement...
...Wald said he was less sure of mankind's chances in such a competitive struggle and advocated isolating the containment laboratory, in which the controversial research would be controlled in a relatively unpopulated area. He said laboratory workers and their families should be closely monitored because they would exhibit effects first...
...Wald said that the Biolabs, the site of the proposed containment facility, are 50 years old, and ant-infested. Even the most elementary precautions would require insect control, he said, adding he believed the Biolab ants are ineradicable...
...Wald called the extension of the moratorium "very important but largely symbolic. The actions of Mayor Vellucci and the City Council have been very important because this is the first City that has raised the issue publicly and acted upon...