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With a double heat shield on an ICBM warhead, for example, the outer shield can be made to take the brunt of X-ray damage, leaving the inner shield to protect the warhead as it descends through the atmosphere. A neutron-blocking layer of paraffin or liquid hydrogen can prevent the uranium trigger from fissioning prematurely. Installation of more rugged electrical components and addition of bypass circuits reduce the possibility of damage from the surge of current caused by an electromagnetic pulse...
...mutually exclusive. They characterize the extremes of Wellesley College. Twenty years ago Wellesley was a different place, perhaps more sophisticated, certainly more socially select. Today Wellesley is a home for 1,750 primarily middle class girls who, by virtue of their capabilities and education, are felling the brunt of the evolution of the feminine mystique. Late last November, the CRIMSON distributed 180 questionnaires at random to girls in each dormitory. A few weeks later, 140 were collected. The following profile is drawn from a compilation of the 53 questions on those 140 questionnaires...
...Diplomatic Nose. The Russian embassy in Peking bore the brunt of the Chinese assaults. Since Chinese students and Russian police clashed two weeks ago in Red Square, the Russian embassy has been surrounded day and night by firebrand-tossing, loudspeaker-keening Chinese. It was, said Tass, like a nonstop "witches' sabbath" of "violent abuse and bloodthirsty calls for revenge on the Soviet people." Dancing around a bonfire, the demonstrators stuck effigies of Brezhnev and Kosygin to crosses and set them afire, railed at the Soviet embassy staff cowering inside as "filthy swine, hyenas, rascals and scoundrels." The nearly...
...brunt of the Crimson scoring came from three unusual sources. Junior Tag Demment and senior Pete Waldinger, who had three goals between them up to yesterday, each scored twice. And sophomore Tom Micheletti, in his first varsity appearance, led the squad with three assists...
...sold only 1,914 season tickets in 1961, and never has enjoyed a winning season in its six-year history. The turnabout is especially sweet for Don Meredith, 28, who has been a Cowboys' quarterback ever since he graduated from Southern Methodist in 1960-and has taken the brunt of the fans' abuse...