Word: wald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night has got consistently sharper. Arledge demands and gets inventive technology. ABC, once el cheapo of the networks (it used to be said that ABC was the last to arrive at the scene and the first to leave), now spends good money to get good people. Arledge hired Richard Wald (once head of NBC News) to run his news operation, a job that Wald defines as "calming the process down." Salant concedes that ABC is "a good news organization now," though he still ridicules those three scattered anchormen: "Having somebody in London, 3,000 miles less far from a story...
...racist, sexist, militaristic, anti-gay and a tool of imperialist capitalistic corporate exploitation as well. Then past tables filled with anti-nuke and alternative energy literature and finally down a dirt path to the beach, were old reliables like Dave Dellinger, former anti-war activist, and George Wald, Emeritus Professor of Biology, would speak and Pete Seeger and others entertain. Just before noon, a sign reading "Plutonium Is Leaking!" was unfurled, but the only visible emission came from the skies, as the rains began; protesters, police and LILCO personnel alike would get soaked for the rest...
About 20 small boats supporting anti-nuclear signs bobbed in the swells along the beach while a predominantly young crowd listened to George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus, say "nuclear power is not only anti-life but an economic disaster...
...were up to me, I'd close down every nuclear plant in the world tomorrow," Wald added...
Speakers at the conference included local, national and international native American speakers, Chicano representatives who live near the mine site, and Anglo representatives Helen Caldicott, the Australian author of Nuclear Madness, and George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus. The gathering provided the basis for ongoing resistance to uranium and coal mining slated for Lakota, Spokane, Ojibwa, Dine and Navajo reservations, along with the land of many other native Americans. Local Chicano residents have been significantly affected by the national nuclear waste isolation pilot project located on a Chicano land grant in the southern part of the state. For these...