Word: wald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting, which was organized by George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, brought together about 40 people, including Leonard Woodcook, president of the United Auto Workers; Jack Sheehan of the Steel Workers Union; Joseph Rhodes Jr., Junior Fellow and student member of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest; David Ifshin, president of the National Student Association; Ewart Guinier, professor of Afro-American Studies; and Howard Zinn, professor of Government at Boston University...
...real significance of the meeting was not the statement or any specific action taken. The point of the meeting, as Wald continually emphasized, was to show the American people, and the Administration in particular, that the intellectual and blue collar communities are not hostile groups...
...statement, which was drawn up by Wald and Salvador Luria, professor of Biology at M. I. T., suggested the benefits of cooperation between labor and academia. "It would give the academic community what it now most lacks: a base in the outside community. It would make more available to the labor movement the universities' resources of disinterested research, expertise, and instruction on problems that most concern...
...Wald in turn emphasized that General Motors isn't just another company. "I've had some experience with them in Campaign G. M," he said. "They are the biggest company in the world. Only nine nations on earth have gross national products bigger than the yearly income...
...present wave of bombings, kidnapings and cop-killings to an obsession with Che's emphasis on immediate, almost mindless action. Others note that it is difficult to determine whether Che is actually a moving force or merely a symbol of a mood. Nobel-prizewinning Biologist George Wald, a staunch pacifist who is one of Harvard's most popular teachers, maintains that for all its magic, Che's memory "is embalmed in a wonderful matrix of ignorance." London mail-order companies report that most orders for Che posters are now coming from teen-age girls who find...