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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Although the plan's first draft laid severe restrictions on Harvard, the proposal presented last night drew Administration approval. In a written statement, Charles P. Whitlock, Assistant to the President for Civic Affairs, termed the present 1943 zoning ordinances obsolete and endorsed the new proposal as adequate...
Leavitt and Peirce has named Andrew S. Hiken '61, and Donald E. Boyd 1G the first and second place winners in its annual advertising contest...
...first two of the three lectures were a novelistic account of the "closed politics" in the historic feud between Sir Henry Tizard and F. A. Lindemann, Churchill's scientific adviser before and through the Second World War. The tale was told, as you might expect, superbly. Snow is a sensitive and gifted man, and a personal knowledge of the scientists involved (as well as how the British government works) made the narrative more alive than it could possibly have been in the hands of a historian. This historic parable was meant to illustrate that, in modern industrial societies, a handful...
During his first two lectures I thought he was showing, in an admirably graphic way, that scientists making decisions are no different from other people making decisions. They act as men rather than as professionals, and they choose on the basis of sudden hatreds and loves, factional loyalties, and personal tastes. I was therefore surprised when he concluded his last lecture with a plea for more scientists at the top levels of our government. Although I might agree, it just didn't seem to follow...
Family Classics (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The first half of a David Susskind version of The Three Musketeers, with Maximilian Schell as D'Artagnan...