Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What makes Sullivan so anxious to participate in labor negotiations at Harvard is that settlements here are the key to contract terms at other colleges. "We live and die," he told some B&G workers, "by what goes on at Harvard, the oldest and most prestigious university." Sullivan feels that his past experience would enable him to get very good settlements out of Harvard, thereby boosting the contract benefits at some of his other area universities such as B.U. and M.I.T...
...Planning to be a freezee some day just as Dr. Bedford is, I must voice some objections to "Never Say Die" [Feb. 3]. You call the process of freezing "strange rites," but, as Jessica Mitford has ably pointed out, interment is the method that is eerie. Cryobiology is a young science, but the mass of individuals now planning on being frozen should give it a stimulating boost. Last year predictions ran that it would be 50 years before a mammalian brain would be successfully frozen, but one was successfully frozen and thawed that very year (Nature...
...least ten nations have lower infant mortality rates than the U.S.; if the U.S.'s rate were as low as Sweden's, 40,-000 babies that now die each year would be saved...
Thomas stayed only briefly, but he played a crucial role, according to Miss Erdmann, in "helping us with the idea of the tone." He told the students, according to another participant, that he would die thinking his life spent for nothing, if, at that time, the U.S. were still in Vietnam...
...Smith says: "I think of my things as being stable, down-to-earth, ordinary in a sense. I don't want them to be 'An Experience.' " But he is willing to play the game of associating them with experiences. The 6-ft. steel cube known as Die, he explains, can refer to a matrix or mold, but it is also an imperative. In fact, he built it after having been injured in an auto accident, partly to express his rage with the world...