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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard's Motor Sports Club out-sped its Yale opponents last Sunday in the first "Jim Khana" racing event ever held at New Haven, president Mike Chamberlain announced yesterday. Although final results are still in the mail, the Crimson definitely captured first place in both under and over the 1500 cc. classes...
Chamberlain was handicapped in the third event, a "potato race on wheels," by the fact that his closed top Porsche forced him to drop the potatoes through the window...
...such an event, the Pope said, the halting of artificial respiration would not be euthanasia--mercy killing--which would never be legitimate...
Once in operation, the NATO missile ring would give a vital resurgence of strength to the NATO defenses. The missile launchers themselves will be highly mobile and difficult to spot, hence all but immune to attack by Khrushchev's vaunted rocketry. In the event of a Russian missile attack on cities, the NATO rockets would be sure to respond. Thus, thanks to the IRBMs, the powerful deterrent now provided by the U.S. Air Force (see cover story) and Navy will be extended into the age of total missilery-a period beginning in two to four years when the Russians...
There is, furthermore, a military advantage in our allies possessing nuclear weapons under control of a committee of the member nations. In the event of small, local wars, where sheer numerical superiority works to the advantage of Communist aggressors, the smaller countries could defend themselves with tactical nuclear weapons, without embroiling the United States in the conflict. This would be a valuable alternative to America's "massive retaliation" against Soviet targets, as reprisal for brush-fire skirmishes, while the provision for central control would prevent a nation's using the weapons for purposes not approved by the Alliance...