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...national moratorium on new "nukes," similar to those already in effect in several states, could lead to slower growth of electric supply, less industrial production, fewer jobs, lower standards of living. Oil cannot take over the role of nuclear power in generating electricity, even if the nation were foolish or desperate enough to speed up the already frightening increase of oil imports. Petroleum is too expensive and too much in demand for transportation, home heating, chemical output...
...Book VI of the Republic Plato teaches us something about the difference between Greeks and barbarians. Congratulations to Master Vogt for liberating us from such a foolish conception. John G. Daugman '76 Winthrop House Resident Tutor
Carmen is, of course, recently divorced. She is also the female lead in a new comic strip that now appears in 15 newspapers. The nation's first comic strip about divorce, Splitsville tries-and mostly succeeds-to laugh at the ridiculous, sad and foolish foibles of couples that can't live together...
...past three weeks, Summer N. Goldstein, a buyer for the store, said yesterday. "We've run out of candy, we've sold 90 per cent of our cards, and we've done 53 per cent more business than last year. In the early seventies people saw Valentines as foolish. Now they're starting to get more sentimental," he said...
...half years here to come to grips with my own mortality, to grow comfortable with the thought that Harvard could not make me over into something I had once desired, but now fear. I like to think it has not changed me, but that, of course, is foolish--I have gained so much from my time here, from the people I have met and the lessons I have learned, occasionally from professors. I cannot be bitter. Still, I am anxious about what may happen to so many people here--the students and administrators and professors that this institution runs...