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...meeting, which was organized by George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, brought together about 40 people, including Leonard Woodcook, president of the United Auto Workers; Jack Sheehan of the Steel Workers Union; Joseph Rhodes Jr., Junior Fellow and student member of the President's Commission on Campus Unrest; David Ifshin, president of the National Student Association; Ewart Guinier, professor of Afro-American Studies; and Howard Zinn, professor of Government at Boston University...
...present wave of bombings, kidnapings and cop-killings to an obsession with Che's emphasis on immediate, almost mindless action. Others note that it is difficult to determine whether Che is actually a moving force or merely a symbol of a mood. Nobel-prizewinning Biologist George Wald, a staunch pacifist who is one of Harvard's most popular teachers, maintains that for all its magic, Che's memory "is embalmed in a wonderful matrix of ignorance." London mail-order companies report that most orders for Che posters are now coming from teen-age girls who find...
...these semi-illicit gatherings we attracted such figures as Ramsey Clark, Dr. John Knowles, Norman Mailer, FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson, Congressman Morris Udall, Justin Kaplan, literary agent Sterling Lord, Roger Wilkins, William Styron,Professor Howard Zinn of Boston University, and Harvard professors, including Wald, Galbraith, and Riesman. We hosted correspondents fresh from Vietnam, blacks representing all degrees of militancy, students of varied ideological stripes, urbanologists, magazine editors, former ambassadors, and a gaggle of ex-aides to Presidents. These provided the most valuable experiences of the Nieman season and revealed, I think, what the program might become in the hands...
...four are: Bernard D. Davis, Lehman Professor of, Bacterial Physiology; George Kistiakowsky, former science advisor to President Eisenhower and Lawrence Professor of Chemistry; Jack L. Strominger, professor of Biochemistry; and George Wald, Nobel laureate and Higgins Professor of Biology...
...Wald said of the proposed measure that it would also endanger the safety of dissident university students and faculty members. "It could take in universities that are engaged in research that could somehow be conceived as military," he said...