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Despite the advances made in all of these fields, no amount of Harvard know-how could generate what might have affected quite a few Harvard affiliates: relief from the yearly flu epidemic. The annual blight hit from late November to mid-January, keeping dozens of Harvardians bedridden for days. While healthy scientists busied themselves in their laboratories, sickly patients could only follow the age-old advice of Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of University Health Services, who recommended rest, fluids and aspirin...
...poorly trained government troops outnumber the guerrillas by 16,000 to 4,000. But the soldiers are spread thinly across a country the size of Massachusetts, and their mobility is hampered by antiquated equipment, their tactics by a lack of know-how. Still, one military expert contends that "only with an immense infusion of arms and men from the outside" do the guerrillas have a chance at winning the war. Owing in part to the failure of the January offensive, and to the Reagan Administration's determination to help the junta, the leftists' support abroad is ebbing. Even...
...press briefing heralding the Energy Department study, Glaser replied to all these objections. He pointed out that solar satellites, unlike power plants that would use nuclear fusion, need no major technological breakthroughs; the space program has already shown that the required scientific know-how exists. What of the staggering costs? Glaser argued that after the turn of the century, when such satellites could be in operation, their electricity probably would be no costlier, and perhaps a lot cheaper, than power from oil, coal and nuclear plants. As for the danger from microwaves, Glaser conceded that this needs further study...
...Ford and his assembly-line method for making the Model T become an inspiration for the new industrial age. Detroit's auto technology spread throughout the world, even to the mountain towns of Argentina and Spain, and the big luxurious American auto became the very epitome of U.S. know-how and cando...
Some French military experts, including former Cabinet Minister Alexandre Sanguinetti and retired General Georges Buis, have called for the creation of a joint European nuclear defense program that would combine French know-how with West German financial resources. The obstacles to such cooperation remain almost insurmountable. The London agreements of 1954 concerning West German sovereignty and membership in NATO forever precluded the acquisition of atomic weapons by Bonn, and Moscow has made it clear that it would never tolerate a West German finger on the nuclear trigger. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt last week reiterated a long-standing West German promise that...