Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sentries stood 24-hour guard at her cabin door on the S.S. France. She was tied to a berth and encased in an airtight 160-lb. plastic container impervious to salt and water. No one would insure her against harm because she is priceless. But a warm welcome awaits the Mona Lisa on her arrival this week at Washington's National Gallery. Officials are fiddling with the thermostats to duplicate the Louvre's temperature and humidity so that all will be well on Jan. 8 when the painting goes on display for three weeks. Back home, the rhubarb...
...only restrictions a free government can property place on the right to travel of its citizens are those which protect them from bodily harm. There is no such danger in travel to Cuba; Cuba, unlike China, welcomes American visitors. Freedom of movement is a necessary corollary to freedom of speech, to the freedom to be informed. The democratic process cannot thrive entirely on second-hand news reports and government press releases. Americans must have the liberty to go where they want to, when they want to. travel to Cuba will come inevitably, and it will come...
...involving such chemicals as ozone (a deadly poison) and nitrogen dioxide (an insidious and lethal gas when it hits the lungs). U.S. Public Health Service Toxicologist Sheldon Murphy neatly proved the perils of sunlight by exposing guinea pigs to city-street concentrations of exhausts. Unirradiated, the gases did little harm; after exposure to artificial sunlight, they made the animals sick, several of them fatally. In Los Angeles, automobiles spew out almost 80% of the smog-producing hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides, and the afterburners now being compulsorily installed on California cars cannot do the whole job of cleaning up the city...
...Will he harm the little girl or is his feeling for her pure? It must be pure. "He's like a child. He's reliving his childhood...
Kathleen O. Elliot, dean of South House, has suggested that a double reporting system be applied to signouts at Radcliffe. Under the plan, a girl would be required to report not only her own late returns, but also those of her friends. Such a system can only do more harm than good...