"The future is exciting - I do not sympathise with those who look back to more placid days with nostalgic yearning" ... Such was the challenge underlying the Association's fourth Foundation Paper, given by Dennis Wetherstone, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, at the Royal Society on 23 January.
Listeners responded eagerly to his cogent and forceful message - and indeed to his brilliant fielding of subsequent questions. Understandably, many of his comments were off-the-record, and do not therefore appear in our discussion highlights.
