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Eighty Boston physicians, many of which are associated with Harvard Medical School, have formed a committee to state the desirability and feasibility of shelter programs.
Calling themselves the Physicians for Social Responsibility, the doctors feel their professional dedication to saving lives impels them to lead the community in making effective protests against irresponsible policies.
The group has already launched a research project which has unearthed a congressional report of 1959 indicating a mammouth expense of the sort of shelter programs that would do any good. Robert W. Colman '56, a resident in hematology at the Beth Israel Hospital and member of the organization's Project Committee said that the group intends to contact similar organizations in countries throughout the world, including those behind the iron curtain.
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