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...George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus told the crowd that federal and state officials were "crazy" not to evacuate residents within a five mile radius of the Three Mile Island nuclear facility in Pennsylvania...
...flaky, if her ex-manager, Jeff Wald, is to be credited. Discharged from Summer's service at the end of last year, Wald announced in the rock press that Donna was more trouble than she was worth, once even canceled a chartered flight because her astrologer counseled against it. Says Donna: "Jeff Wald earned over $200,000 through me and never saw me perform. He was just running around Hawaii with his wife [Singer Helen Reddy] having a great time, thinking he was above being a manager." Tending to Donna's needs now are both a former publicist for Donna...
...George Wald '44, professor emeritus of Biology and winner of the Physiology and Medicine Nobel Prize, told the enthusiastic crowd that "Nuclear power and weapons are the most life-threatening thing that has ever come up in the history of the planet...
...Wald and Jonathan King, assistant professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also fear academic exploitation of DNA research. Wald says that some "pioneers" of recombinant DNA research are also on the boards of corporations that wish to use the fruits of such research to develop new products, and which fund scientists' experiments. By accepting private, rather than government, funding, researchers do not have to abide by NIH guidelines...
...Wald says the moratorium was "unprecedented," but unlike many of his colleagues, he believes it accomplished a useful purpose in bringing the issue of recombinant DNA to the public's attention. This is as unusual as it is important, "because everything possible is done to make them think the issue is beyond their comprehension," Wald says, adding that many professors did not support his position. "People in the Biology and Biochemistry department were exceedingly eager--passionately anxious, in fact--to get on with their research," he says...