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...development of radar, the Hawk missile and the microwave oven; in Cambridge, Mass. Upon his retirement in 1950, Marshall fulfilled a lifelong interest in anthropology by taking his family on an expedition to study the Bushman of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, an adventure later recounted in The Harmless People (1959) by his daughter, Elizabeth, and The !Kung of Nyae Nyae (1976) by his wife Lorna...
Cass added that much of its data is approximate. The DEQE has not checked the accuracy of all its information, he said, adding that further investigation at many sites may show they are harmless...
...Lowell's audience found it impossible to resist a literal interpretation of these poems; they saw the sister of the president of Harvard cavorting nude with female amorists in bathtubs and swimming pools. What the Bostonian intended as harmless and playful looked lewd and lascivious, as though she were flaunting her nude figure and amorous desires in the faces of her beholders...seeing this unexpectedly large woman stand upon a stage reciting verse of this nature, and knowing at the same time that she was a Lowell, was enough to knock the stuffing out of any self-respecting crowd...
...refusal to respect Nixon's claim that presidential privilege automatically shields other Oval Office conversations from disclosure, Nixon so far has managed to keep secret the 113 tape segments sought by demonstrators arrested during the 1971 May Day protests. Nixon's attorneys maintain that the conversations are harmless. The ex-President, they say, is resisting "on principle...
Speaking to a small audience at the Kennedy School of Government, John M. Deutch, former undersecretary of Energy, argued that the U.S. must develop binary chemical weapons--which combine two harmless chemicals to produce a poisonous mixture--to deter Soviet attacks with such weapons...