An impressive tribute to the late President Chaim Weizmann will be held in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel Dec. 17 by the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovoth, it was announced today by Abraham Feinberg, president of the committee. The committee’s scheduled celebration of the 78th birthday of Dr. Weizmann, which was to have been held Dec. 4, was cancelled when the President died.
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