Word: wald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heads. But last week's replacement of Reuven Frank as president of NBC News transpired with no audible percussions. Frank, 52, had let it be known for some time that he was tired of administrative work. Five years ago he had brought in ex-Newspaper Editor Richard C. Wald as a News vice president. Last June, when Frank made Wald his second in command, it seemed clear that Wald was being groomed to succeed his patron. With that change accomplished, Frank now plans to return to producing news documentaries...
Revelle expects to expand programs of international scientific exchange already begun by the society, a task for which Harvard colleagues George Wald. Higgins Professor of Biology, and Everett 1 Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, see him as especial well qualified...
...scientists, including Mendelsohn, went to the White House and attempted to speak with a member of the national security office in order to find out what the rationale for the bombing was. Unable to see any staff members, the scientists turned in a petition condemning the bombing written by Wald and signed by several hundred AAAS members to the White House mail room...
...agreed a symposium of scientists at Boston University. But would they want to have anything to do with us? "With our magnificent record with the Indians, the Chinese, the Filipinos, you can imagine what will happen," declared Anthropologist Ashley Montagu. Added Harvard's Nobel-prizewinning biologist-professor George Wald: "However horrifying and destructive, you can't think of anything so horrible that somebody would not feel elated at carrying it out." As a matter of fact, said Cornell Astronomer Carl Sagan, other civilizations may already know about us because of our high-frequency radar and military messages. "That...
When one surveys the Harvard Faculty in an effort to find it man who is sensitive, in touch, committed, the name George Wald usually crops up. But who is George Wald when compared to Charles Reich, the man who made Consciousness III a household word. Reisk's critics, who originally charged that his book was just a fairytale, now point to the recent presidential election as hard evidence that America has not yet greened. Of course not. But after all, Reisk never told that Consciousness it would die easily...