Word: wald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alliance, which will be a nation-wide labor-student group, had its first organizational meeting yesterday. Representatives included Ralph Nader, the presidents of the UAW, the NSA, and the American Federation of Teachers, and Prof. George Wald...
...speech in Faneuil Hall, Wald charged that the American judicial process is being "subverted" -especially through the courts' misuse of procedures relating to bail, sentencing and contempt of court-and warned that the "American traditions we've grown up under are going down the drain...
...George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, and Vern Countryman, professor of Law, both spoke at the meeting...
...finds the heat to be a "social" and not an "academic" issue, and Harvard refuses to get involved until the Holyoke Center air conditioning fails. Meeting in emergency session, the Faculty votes to allow people to eat in the Faculty Club without coats and ties. After the meeting, George Wald calls reporters into his test tube to applaud the decision. "It's not the heat," he explains. "It's the humility." The crisis ends after two weeks when air pollution finally blocks out the sun completely. Both the liberal and conservative Faculty caucuses take credit for this last-minute arrangement...
...here's to George Wald. our favorite worrier...