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...elements were simply a challenge to some outdoorsmen -and women. The combination of -23° temperatures and 46-m.p.h. winds on New Hampshire's Mount Washington created a -95° wind-chill factor-but did not stop some hikers from risking their lives on its lower slopes. The same was true in New York's gale-whipped Adirondacks, where Psychiatric Social Worker Bill Myers explained that people went out in such weather just because it was there. Said he: "It's an aggressive response, not a passive response like staying inside with a blanket...
...much did Kissinger contribute to these changes? Was he simply a brilliant tactical negotiator, or did he begin building the "structure of peace" he sought and lay the foundations for a "permanent foreign policy"? In his behalf, Kissinger can mount an impressive case. His design for a global foreign policy included a comprehensive economic, political and military approach with long-term goals. He has sought to explain the new reality that although America is still the world's greatest economic power and possesses massive military strength, "we no longer enjoy meaningful nuclear supremacy." For Kissinger, this has meant...
...left, Murray Dea was called for trying to high stick the puck into the net. That brought play back for a face off at the other end of the ice, and Petro skated back on. The Friars battled to keep the puck in, and before Harvard was able to mount another charge the bellowing Providence multitude was counting down the final seconds of play...
Swollen Joints. Conducted by a team headed by Dr. Irving Selikoff of New York's Mount Sinai Medical Center, the study examined a total of 1,029 people, 638 of whom were randomly selected from both quarantined and unquarantined farms or had eaten food produced on them. The remainder were employees of the company that manufactured the fire retardant and others referred by doctors or checked at their own request. Among the randomly selected group, 37% had such neurological symptoms as loss of memory, muscular weakness, coordination problems and headaches; 27% suffered from painful or swollen joints...
SCHUMACHER QUOTES from the Sermon on the Mount, the Book of Proverbs, and Pope Pius XI during his discourse. He attacks the inadequacy of GNP materialism with "a revolutionary saying that 'man shall not live by bread alone but by every word of God.'" To his credit as a propagandist, Schumacher never forces his religious beliefs on the reader. But neither does one leave this book feeling that religious references are made for poetic effect...