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Even before the batmen got to play Maine, they had to knock off second seed Temple. A Charlie Marches seven-hitter and a timely RBI single by second-team. All American Vinnie Martelli helped push Harvard over...
...friendlier aspects of American life. But even by the contentious standards of boss-worker struggles in our society this year's negotiations between the University and during hall workers represented by Local 26 of the International Hotel. Restaurant. Institutional Employees and Bartenders Union ranks as a genuine knock-down drag-out. Indeed there really haven't been any negotiations at all between Local 26 president Domenic M. Bozzotto and Harvard chief labour negotiator Edward W. Powers. As the workers contract approaches its June 19 expiration date, the two men have spent most of their time in a posturing...
...seek to eliminate multiple warheads within a fixed time, say 10 years." The root of the problem is similar to the dilemma encountered by the imaginary video game player. If you face an enemy with fewer launchers (ships) than you have, but more warheads (missiles), then conceivably he can knock you out in a first strike. Therefore, in a crisis situation, you could be tempted to destroy your enemy's small number of missiles. If your enemy knows this, he'll be tempted to shoot first. The process is essentially ad infinitum, hence destabilizing...
...letter went to nine House Democrats who wanted both super powers gradually to reduce reliance on multiple independently targetable (MIRVed) missiles. These missiles are considered destabilizing because they are tempting first-strike targets. The reason: it takes only one incoming warhead to knock out a Hydraheaded missile on the ground. If each side deployed only single-warhead missiles, there would be more targets, and each incoming warhead could hit only one enemy warhead at a time...
...floor of a dormitory common room discussing, in an "uncannily lucid manner, what must be done about Rhodesia or Vietnam or Mississippi or Harlem." And young people identified with his "casual, rumpled eloquence" and followed him--to Mississippi in the Freedom Summer of 1963 and to New England to knock on doors for Eugene McCarthy...