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David Vickery, assistant Cambridge city manager for community development, said yesterday the city might still take the parcel of land by eminent domain to build a public garage to ease the Harvard Square parking shortage, a plan Cambridge has considered for a few years...
...arms control effort is to find a formula that preserves each superpower's "capacity to retaliate" against a nuclear strike, "thereby reducing the incentive and capacity for surprise attack." It is not enough simply to advocate a reduction in atomic arms, he added. Concern for national security requires building a huge weapons arsenal while the efforts are under way to build an enduring peace. Said he: "How to avoid nuclear war without succumbing to nuclear blackmail-this is the overwhelming problem of our period...
Narrow, single-interest groups are preventing the compromises that are essential to democracy, Wriston says. Nobody, not even the President, is empowered to make a tradeoff, to decide that the nation will incur some risks and costs and unpleasantness to build the productive base and acquire the energy that is needed to head off unemployment and prevent the lights from going...
Some two inches thick and based on many hours of hearings, the NRC report will be some comfort to those who design and build reactors used to generate electricity. It states categorically that although the Pennsylvania plant was not "fail-safe," its equipment and emergency procedures "were adequate to have prevented the serious consequences of the accident, if they had been permitted to function or be carried out as planned." Trouble is, neither the equipment nor the preprogrammed safety procedures built into the Babcock & Wilcox reactor really got a chance...
...groins were also ultimately destructive. Though each protected its own stretch of beach, the barricade hastened erosion on the adjacent section, which was no longer replenished by the wash of fresh sand. The only solution seemed to be to build more groins, but they caused more erosion. By the early 1960s, the waves were lapping almost at the foundations of Miami Beach monuments like the Fontainebleau Hilton...