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...should be launched unless a comprehensive arms-control program that places sharp limits on offensive weapons is established first. That way, strategic defense might conceivably serve as a useful backup to traditional deterrence, an extra insurance against war breaking out by accident (a space-based American death ray might knock out an errant Soviet missile, for instance, without necessarily touching off a full-scale Soviet attack) or against war being started by a reckless newcomer to the nuclear-weapons club...
There are many caretakers at Harvard and Radcliffe. On the front lines are proctors and advisors in the Yard and tutors in the Houses When I was a resident tutor in Duster House, innumerable students would knock on my door, usually late in the evening, and want to talk Problems of loneliness far outweighed concern about studies. When I was a section man in a Humanities course, two students individually came to me and said that they liked one another but were too shy to ask each other out I got them two tickets next to each other...
NONFICTION: D.W. Griffith, Richard Schickel ∙ The Knight, the Lady and the Priest, Georges Duby ∙ Knock Wood, Candice Bergen ∙ The March of Folly, Barbara W. Tuchman "Son," Jack Olsen ∙ Tales from the Secret Annex, Anne Frank
...experts believe, the battery loses power and the mines become inactive. Because the mines were placed in deep channels, the explosions are unlikely to cause serious damage to ships. But those familiar with the operation say that "they will crack a seam in the ship, shake things up and knock people around." That is enough to cut off most shipping. "A mine raising spume 50 yds. away," says one official of Nicaragua's Sandinista government, "is enough to make a captain turn around and head to the next port on his list...
...KNOCK WOOD Candice Bergen Simon & Schuster; 356 pages...