At the meeting we had all these interesting results presented by the various people, but Geoffrey Chew had a surprise for us. He got up and announced that he had always been a modest calculator of effects, not somebody who made grand pronouncements about general theory, but that this time he was going to make an exception and he was going to say something very general and he thought very important, and then he would go back and hide in the bushes again and do his calculations but he had to tell us this important thing; namely that field theory was wrong, except maybe for electromagnetism and gravitation, but for strong interactions it was wrong–and instead something called S-matrix theory was correct. Whereupon he repeated everything that we had tried to teach him over the years about dispersion relations, crossing, and generalized unitarity, and how you could use those instead–on the mass shell instead of the usual apparatus of field theory in order to do calculations–provided you supplied some boundary conditions or a Born approximation or something. Well, I was appalled. I thought this was really peculiar because I continued to believe that all of this, that dispersion theory was just a way of doing field theory on the mass shell. And I didn't understand why he said that field theory was wrong but this other way of looking at it was right and so on.