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...great hazard of construction labor is its uncertainty, but Burke claimed that as a general rule the undergraduate could count on any road project costing over $250,000 or any building over $800,000 lasting at least ten weeks...
...Lived. Southern enthusiasts like to dream that, had Jackson lived, he and Lee might well have made up for the material deficiencies of the Confederacy. In this absorbing book, Texas-born Historian Vandiver (Rice Institute) does not hazard a guess, but notes that Stonewall's magic was greatly aided by the mediocrity of his opponents. Tactics that bewildered Banks and Pope and Hooker might well have foundered against commanders like Grant and Sherman. As it was, Jackson's greatest coups were repeatedly frustrated by the dogged resistance of the often outwitted but seldom outfought Union soldier...
...through the Suez Canal, and 3) set forth an unexpected joint declaration on nuclear-weapons tests. As long as Russia continues to block a general disarmament agreement, the communique said, the U.S. and Britain will have to continue "nuclear testing." Meanwhile, they will use "restraint" to keep radiation under hazard levels, and will permit Soviet observers at the nuclear tests if the Soviet Union will in turn permit Western observers at its tests...
...smoking of tobacco, particularly in the form of cigarettes, is an important health hazard," the seven experts conclude. "The evidence of a cause-effect relationship [with lung cancer] is adequate for considering the initiation of public-health measures." But the group suggests no such measures. Instead, it urges more research to find the cancer-causing substance in smoke, and a simultaneous effort to remove it even before it is chemically identified. Possible answers to the problem: selection of tobacco strains, extracting the offending substance from the leaves or filtering it out of the smoke. Most of today's filters...
Undefeated freshman Ted Robbins faces the difficult task of ousting Al Culbert from the heavyweight division. Pickett refused to hazard a guess at which one would win a wrestle...