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...George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology; Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law; Lester Grinspoon, associate professor of Psychiatry at the Medical School; and Harvey G. Cox, professor of Divinity, are members of the group, which was formed last December to work for reform of the drug laws...
...became the paradigm for the re-evaluation of educational programs in high schools and colleges all over the country. The report, popularly known as the Redbook, was drawn up by a group of the finest minds in the country, including historian Paul Buck, classicist John Finley, biologist George Wald, poet I. A. Richards, former Radcliffe president W. K. Jordan, and the senior Arthur Schlesinger...
...right on. Although the professional seers have generally not descended to such trivialities, almost everyone seems to think that marijuana will be legalized before very long. Many experts meanwhile are convinced that pollution will make all the above forecasts irrelevant. Civilization will end within a generation, says George Wald, Harvard's Nobel-prizewinning biochemist, unless drastic and immediate steps' are taken to reverse the despoliation of man's environment...
...Wald said that "a major objective of the alliance is to weld a constituency that can operate politically on a package of political and social issues. And the time will presumably come when we will back candidates who back those issues...
...Wald said that the "Labor-University Alliance" is in contact with John Gardner's "Common Cause," and indicated that the two groups will be working together on at least some issues. But, Wald added, the two groups are not duplicating efforts. "We are talking to a different constituency. I doubt that Common Cause is dipping very deeply into labor unions or students for their membership," he said...