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...current and frequency. To the U.S. Army, the idea was especially attractive : it was hunting for a safe, simple way to anesthetize battlefield patients without the use of bulky, expensive gas equipment. With Army funds, doctors at the University of Mississippi, experimenting with dogs and monkeys, set out to construct a cheap mobile unit that could be used to shock human patients to sleep...
...practicing philanthropy, at least not on business hours, and slum properties are very profitable investments because of the high population concentration. To participate in urban renewal projects would mean not only giving up lucrative tenement properties, but also paying exorbitant prices for slum land in order to construct (at high cost) less profitable housing. So a lot of government money is needed to set up a meaningful urban renewal program. With the state unwilling and the city unable to contribute a great deal, the bulk of the money will have to come from the Federal government...
...implications of such a system are basic to biology. "Lacking an adequate framework of biological theory," Lederberg said recently, "we cannot easily construct a precise definition of life that could apply to all possible worlds. It would be incautious to reject the possibility of exotic forms of life that dispense with water or oxygen and that thrive at temperatures below minus 100 degrees or above 250 degrees centigrade." Lederberg hopes his experiment may one day decide the argument about whether life arose spontaneously on different planets or whether it arose everywhere (assuming it exists elsewhere) out of spores floating through...
Announcement yesterday of a proposal to construct a 15-story office building on stilts over MTA Harvard Sq. property drew mixed reactions from the University and a civic group...
Attorney Phillip M. Cronin '53 protested that the Cambridge Planning Board had "spot-zoned" the Observatory Hill area in order that Harvard might construct apartment buildings there. Downgrading of the "high-class" residential area was unwarranted since 1943 and had been done with total disregard for his 252 clients, he declared...