Word: wiesner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kootch had been playing in a rock band called the King Bees. Now he was forming a new band, the Flying Machine. With James on guitar and doubling as composer-vocalist, Kootch also on guitar and Zachary Wiesner, son of M.I.T. Provost Jerome Wiesner, on bass, the group was soon able to earn something like $12 a night. Despite its low income, it was quite a good band. What it proved while it lasted was that Taylor had somehow evolved into an accomplished musician. Most of his songs?including Knocking 'Round the Zoo, Night Owl and Rainy Day Man, which...
...little money from his parents, and he lived all alone in an uptown pad furnished with a mattress and a radio. "He got hung up on taking in weird people?runaway teen-agers and people like that." Taylor was also getting heavily into drugs, especially heroin. Zach Wiesner had quit the Flying Machine after three months. Partly from inertia and partly out of loyalty to Kootch, James hung on for a year and a half. Then he escaped?not to the structure of McLean or the tranquillity of Martha's Vineyard but to swinging London...
After Kennedy's address, the panel-made up of George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, Abram J. Chayes '43, professor of Law, Paul M. Doty, Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry, Jerome B. Wiesner, M. I. T. professor of Biology, and George Rathjens of M. I. T.-answered questions from the floor...
Representative Richard McCarthy (D-N. Y.), leader of the Congressional fight against Chemical-Biological Warfare (CBW) and Dr. Jerome Wiesner, Provost of M. I. T. appeared with Clark and Grodzins before a disappointing crowd...
...Wiesner, the former science advisor to President Kennedy, said, "In spite of all the talk by the Department of Defense, ABM is not practical. You could throw away three-fourths of our strategic capabilities and still be able to make Russia a wasteland. There are so many things wrong with ABM that everyone says something different. All 20 reasons are true," he added...