Last spring the Ely Lilly Award was bestowed on Jon Beckwith a young professor at Harvard Medical School in recognition of the work of his coworkers and himself (see "Heroes of our Time", p 14). Jon turned the awarded money over to the Black Panther Party. At the 1970 meeting of the American Society of Microbiology he...
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Six people from Boston SESPA went to Ann Arbor to participate in the first of the spring environmental teach-ins. They wanted to inject a radical political analysis into the otherwise apolitical program of the Ann Arbor ENACT (Environmental Action) conference. Jim Shapiro (see "Heroes of our time", p 14) had been...
Cold Spring Harbor laboratory is the sanctum-sanctorum of Molecular Biology. Its annual symposium from June 4 to June 11, 1970, attracted over 300 scientists (needless to say, about 80% males) from all over the country and top scientists from abroad. In the words of its director, Nobel Prize winner James D. Watson...
Herb offered some critical comments on the political implications saying that the pledge-taking in itself is "neither radical political activity nor . . . a threat to the establishment" since (1) it is an individual act requiring no organized social or political effort (2) it removes the critical scientist from the...
Vol. II, No. 2 of SESPA Newsletter has taken a new form and a new title for what would have been the eighth issue of SESPA Newsletter. Science for the People, the primary slogan of the Dec. '69 AAA$ action and Boston SESPA's alternate name is now also the title of our newsmagazine. In its new format and with increased...