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THE NEW YORK TIMES, ·.M ONDAY, N OVE':\1:BER 21, 1966.
.POPULAT.ION ISSUEIf _
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TIRTZ
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Dangers F oreseen
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training in ,two \\.;Y~ by_ pro~·id-·
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~ war t oo dangerous to be left _to ing an across-the-board mcrease
I the aenerals, Mr. W irtz said,
in medical t raining and by !)roj ;- _ .-_ .-··
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viding a S30-million fund to
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arcane of thought an~ llfe Will es tablish 60 academic chairs to
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· I either h ave made science t oo s tabilize the college's long-range
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dangerous t o be left t o th e sci- educational program.
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_,entists or will have made gov- ' Ee indicat ed that medical
Birth Control Discussio1is i . 'fl'::.;J -~ _s;.'t_·,..-·:·
F.'t!i ernment t oo danger~us t o be student enrollment would in{_-,_ , }it,-.:,; ;{ ;,;~~ {- ·
.t;;' left t o the governed.'
crease from 96 t o 120 a class,
that enrollment for doc torates
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t hat there would be a substanW il- ; · ·\ .
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Jard Wirtz observed critically
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/d, development program over a ti2! inc rease in the number of


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1 10-year period to _strengthen_ :nte:n residents and post-docyest erday' tha t the controversia l
"'(.lf_,:. and ex tend the me~1cal school toral fellcws trained.
question . of birth control had t
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-~'0 progra ms of education a nd reTo pr'.lvide fac ilities for its
not been dis cussed openly- :. . . ·. .qf. i..,._Y::
~ search a nd the development of cxp~.nded enrollment, t he E in"unless -to be der ided"-a t the /r · _;;:·,,,.- , / '
· :,.J ::xtensive facilities.
Medical School is planning
r_ecentlyth heldh eletchtion catm- f:_

· ·"· J ack D. Weiler, chairman of ste::-i
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paigns
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the Medical College's Board of :nr15-story
He":~h Sciences on its
N oting that some population ;.
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,Overseers, a nnounced that the · -campu.;;.
experts· predict there will be f ,
campaign h ad · started _ wi~h
T he build ing would proYide
three billion people 01· m ore by t/_ .·
preliminary pledges of Sl J-nul- classrooms, lecture nails and
t he year 2,000, :Mr. Wirtz added ~ .
lion.
laboratories, as \\'ell a s other
that "t ~ere is ? . ;;:owing aware- i
One of t he highlight s of the facilities, including a two -story
ness tha t centuries after 1\1:al- I
convocation was t he presenta computer center and headquarthus's warning- that t her e may ,
tion of honorary degrees to four ' t ers for a greatly expanded pronot be fo od to feed so many."
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prominent Americans for vari- gram of preventive medicine
His r eference to :Malthus reThe New York T i mes
ous achievements in their
and communit y health.
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ferred t o Thomas R. Malthu3, VIEWS
BIRTH RISE: fields.
· Three large middle - income
18th century economist who Secreta ry of Dabor W. WitCited were 1\fr. Wirtz, who
apartment houses ,::'.I'. be built
was a uthor of the theory that la rd W irtz said birth con- was awarded the degree of
on' the campus site to provide_
population t ends to increase
docto r of laws ; Cha rles H. Revresidential quarters fo r nurses,
fa ster than the f::l:Jd supply, and trol issue s h ould h a ve been son. chairman of the boa rd of
h ouse staff, married s tudc:-its,
tha t war , disease and famine a re d iscussed m ore openly iii Revlon, I nc., doctor of humane
pos t-doct oral fellows and juniur I
!'!~ce~=~ry t k ee:' t:w popula- . t i!3 .::.Cl_ccfio-;: · · ca m 1i::i.i~l]s.;_: letters ; Dr. Albert B. Sabin,
faculty.
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tion in balanc with the food
who developed oral polio vacsupply. P opula tion H althus said,,
cine, doct or of science, and Dr.
mus t be checked by moral reSidney Farber of Ha rvard
straint.Medical School, doctor of sciSpeaking at a s pecia l convoence.
cation at the Albert Eins tein
Dr. Samuel Belki n, president
Colle"'e of :Medicine in th e upof , Yeshiva University. who
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per Bronx, Secreta ry Wi:·tz
awarded the degrees, observed
used t he birth control qu estion
t hat the r ecipients represented
as an example of the failure of,·
the "creative pa rtnership of
in his words, "the majority" to
government, science and philanface u p t o t he k:iowledge·
thropy in the growth and development of American medical
science ~- consta ntly dc·,elop·
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education and re earch."
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'l'he new program. j\fr. Weiler
"There is, at least," h e said,
sa id, would streng then medical
"a rouah equiv:i lent between
both th; na ture and the infinite
importa nce of t wo pur.,uits:
that by the life scienti~( of th e
method· of creating life, a nd
that by society of how t o con- 1
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