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Harvard resident armchair nuke expert Paul M. Doty left this week to talk with other nuke experts at a conference on arms control in the Soviet Union. Doty, a biochemist, is a member of a special task force of both U.S. and Soviet specialists who have been meeting under the sponsorship of the Kettering Foundation of Ohio.
Doty, director of the Center for Science and International Affairs, was one of the co-authors of the book, Living with Nuclear Weapons.
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The dice came up snake eyes for the five following Harvard professors, all recently named by Bok to chair their respective departments for a period of three years effective July 1. Department chairman is a time-consuming administrative task at Harvard that rotates among department members. The unlucky five this time around are: Assistant Professor Gary A. Tubb (the incumbent in Sanskrit and Indian Studies); Professor Warren D. Goldfarb (Philosophy); Professor of Arabic Wolfhart P. Heinrichs (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations); Professor Stanley J. Tambiah (Anthropology); and Professor Sheldon H. White (Psychology and Social Relations).
Also appointed: to a four-year term in the Fine Arts Department, Professor Neil A. Levine; and to an open-ended term heading the Celtic Languages and Literatures Department, Professor Sean O. Coileain.
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A recent call to Boston City Hall revealed a level of "hands-on" leadership rarely exhibited in municipal governments.
When Crimson reporter Sonya C. Laurence dialed Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn's director of Constituent Affairs, Carmen A. Pola, she was more than a little surprised to have her call answered not by Pola, but by Mayor Flynn himself. Flynn was quite helpful, according to Laurence, and he even agreed to leave a message for the busy and unreachable bureaucrat.
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This is a hot week on the Harvard Lecture circuit--that is if you're interested in nuclear weapons, immigration or the Caribbean. Heading the ticket at the Forum at the Institute of Politics is Notre Dame President and general academic big-wig the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, speaking on "Science, Religion, and the Nuclear Menace" also at the K-School tonight in an adjoining room is Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), one of the chief proponents of immigration reform in recent years, speaking on, you guessed it. "The Politics of Immigration Reform"....another big-shot coming to Harvard this week is Jamaica's Prime Minister and free-market fan Edward Seaga. He speaks tonight at the Law School and tomorrow at the Center for International Affairs....or, tap for the weekend is a big, two-day conference on women's history at Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library that was Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities Robert M. Coles '50 who dropped, by the University of Massachusetts at Boston last month to deliver a speech at a celebration of the statefunded university's 20th anniversary. Coles urged colleagues and students in the mental health disciplines to get back in touch with the simple truths of human behavior and rely less on book theory. Harvard Treasurer George Putnam '49 is currently on vacation in India.