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...will share the podium with George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, and author Barry Commoner...
Soviet authorities barred George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, from attending a scientific symposium on Moscow on Thursday...
Participants at the gathering included ten American and Canadian scientists that Soviet officials warned not, to attend, but did not attempt to stop. The officials turned back Wald and Robert Goldberg, a scientist from the National Institutes of Health, when they tried to leave Leningrad for the conference...
...will be called "John Doe") was in one way unique: Doe was the only student of the thirty-five to enter Mass Hall after the start of the occupation. A tutor at the time, he recalls receiving a 7 a.m. phone call in his Claverly room from George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, informing him that black students had just taken over Mass Hall, and asking him if he knew any details of the protest action. The graduate student, who belonged to H-R Afro, told Wald he'd go down to Mass Hall to check out the report...
Egged on by Wald and his biologist wife, Ruth Hubbard, Cambridge's Mayor Alfred Velluci used the escalating DNA furor to badger his old foe, Harvard. He convened the city council in an effort to halt DNA research at the school. Said Velluci: "Something could crawl out of the laboratory, such as a Frankenstein." At the council's request, Harvard and M.I.T. agreed to a moratorium on P-3 research while an eight-member citizens' review board studied the issue. In February, the council overrode Velluci and passed an ordinance permitting recombinant DNA work to be resumed...