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Leverett House began an experiment yesterday to lessen a reported $38,000 electric light bill caused by spotlights in the Tower windows. Members of the House maintenance crew unscrewed 198 150-watt light bulbs in the windows of one Tower wall and substituted 75-watt bulbs...
Kennedy's solution for our domestic problems can be likened to giving a man who has had his arm cut off an aspirin. You might lessen the pain while he bleeds to death. The answer to unemployment does not lie in stimulating buying power through increased social security benefits, increased unemployment benefits, or raising the minimum wage...
Brower advocated hiring more teaching fellows, in order to provide closer contacts between faculty and students, and to lessen the work load of the present teachers...
...Strategic Air Command bombers through dispersal and hardening of bases. The better prepared the U.S. is to fight back and recuperate after a nuclear attack, the less likely the Russians are to attack. In addition, Kahn advocates a buildup of conventional military forces, armed with non-nuclear weapons, to lessen the U.S.'s dependence on nuclear retaliatory power. For the long run, with the rapid development of ever more fearsome military technologies and the spread of nuclear weapons to smaller nations, Kahn thinks that no feasible combination of unilateral defense measures will provide national security...
Glimp supported a possible policy of "pre-screening," by which a group of colleges would establish a centralized service that would, in turn, encourage and discourage prospective candidates. Such a screening organization would lessen some of the load on the College's Admissions Office...