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...matter what kind of ABM deterrent system a country may install, it will not deter an enemy bent on using nuclear weapons. All the belligerent nation need do is deposit nuclear explosives underwater off the coast of the target country, wait until the winds are just right, and detonate the weapon. The fallout will inflict the damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 10, 1967 | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...nowadays, but in general life is heaven for the masses compared with what it was 22 years ago in some countries. This miracle of prosperity is as good a guarantee against holocaust as any missile offense or defense program man can create. For it is not machines that will deter man from certain actions-if he is desperate, he will always be clever enough to find the flaws in someone else's system. Rather, it is his inner feeling of what life is worth to him that will be the all powerful deterrent. This area must not be slighted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 10, 1967 | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...even religious prohibitions deter women from using birth-control devices when they have access to them. According to Princeton's Dr. Charles Westoff, a nationwide survey shows that 53% of married Catholic women aged 18 to 39 use contraceptives in defiance of church doctrine. In eleven years, he told the Notre Dame Conference on Population last week, the number rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: About-Face on Birth Control | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

...alert was too late to reduce most factory fumes and did little to deter motorists from flocking to the city for the traditional post-Thanksgiving buying splurge. The break finally came, not because of the alert measures, but from evening showers that washed the dirty air. By week's end the inversion layer was breaking up as the westerly wind returned to sweep clean the skies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: Western Wind, When Wilt Thou Blow? | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

Ruyle is still seeking students who have computer problems that might be able to aid in the project's investigations. He said, however, "to deter anyone who might want to fool around for an hour just for kicks before a Bogie flick, that students who use Tact's facilities will have to write up a critical analysis of their experience with the equipment." He also said that by the Spring most of the computer's time will be taken up by the two new courses...

Author: By Stephen I. Kruskall, | Title: New Project to Let Harvard Students Learn to Control Computers in Hour | 11/15/1966 | See Source »

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