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...opponents of the research, perhaps because they felt so defensive about the cancer issue, decided to emotionalize the debate even further. George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, most notably, focussed almost entirely on an appeal to stop cancer at its environmental sources. Another opponent talked about pressure from above--University Hall specifically--to conduct this research. But, if anything, the Faculty dean's office has been passive in this debate, choosing to listen to the scientists...
...government's apartheid policies, the Bonn government last week shifted the proposed site of the meeting from Hamburg to southern Bavaria. Kissinger and his 100-member retinue will be ensconced at the Hotel Sonnenhof in the picturesque village of Grafenau (pop. 4,000), deep in the Bayerischer Wald and about 13 miles from the Czechoslovak border. Vorster's entourage will be provided rooms in another Hotel Sonnenhof, in the equally colorful village of Bodenmais, about 30 miles away. The Secretary and the Prime Minister will shuttle between the villages, either by car or helicopter...
Commenting on the opposition of two prominent Harvard biologists, Ruth Hubbard, professor of Biology and George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology to the proposed lab, Rosovsky said, "Their views are in a small minority within the community. There are lots of other people who are as competent as Professor Hubbard and Professor Wald who feel differently...
...George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, was also asked to comment for the article; he told The Quarterly he "viewed the colonies with horror." Wald called Harvard's Le Corbusier-designed Carpenter Center "a goldfish bowl--just the thing for an artist." He described Paolo Solari, the Arizona architect, as "that gifted man, making bony structures in the American desert." Wald's point is that this kind of dehumanizing architecture is getting us ready for space colonies, like...
...afraid that as a result of the competitive bidding for Walters' talents, the line between journalism and show business, always somewhat smudgy in television, would become even further blurred. "It makes me exceedingly uncomfortable that people can command so much money doing news," groused NBC News President Richard Wald, after losing one of his network's indisputable stars. "It's a system that belongs to entertainment, not news." Said a top CBS executive: "For 20 years we've struggled to have broadcast news treated on a par with print news. So when ABC pays someone that...