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...White House payroll and directed by an assistant to Ehrlichman had broken into a psychiatrist's office with CIA equipment to obtain the psychiatric records of Daniel Ellsberg in order to find out about his "moral and emotional problems." The information, if not the method, had been specifically ordered up by the President. When Ehrlichman found out about the breakin, he claims he merely told the burglars: "Don't do it again." His legal duty was to report the crime...
...UPCOMING MOSCOW VISIT: I am not thinking much in terms of taking new initiatives in [international] affairs. [In going to Moscow] I am not trying to obtain some specific political or diplomatic object, but I have a feeling that just my going there will bear some fruit. After all, President Nixon achieved a detente with Peking; and then he visited Moscow, and now the U.S. is selling the Russians 18 million tons of wheat. But before going there I will visit the U.S. President Nixon went to Peking without telling anybody, but I will not do that kind of thing...
...irregular to serve as a major power source, Marine Engineer William E. Heronemus figures that they could still be helpful. He suggests building high windmills out in the ocean on floating platforms, where they could generate the electrical power necessary to distill and break down sea water to obtain hydrogen for fuel cells. The old idea of tidal power is also getting new attention. By harnessing the daily rise and fall of the tides (average: 27 ft.) in the Rance River estuary in Brittany, the French are producing some 240 million watts of electricity. In North America, most...
Like Erick, most midgets, or pituitary dwarfs, can be helped to achieve near-normal growth through injections of HGH. But while efforts are under way to synthesize the substance in large amounts, HGH can now be obtained only from the pituitaries of human cadavers, which are in short supply. Rimoin estimates that 25% of the midget population could be helped by hormone therapy; at present, only 10% are able to obtain treatment...
...students who responded to the proposal, 125, or 94 per cent, were in favor of it. Although Frost hoped to obtain about 350 responses, the number that did respond "is a large enough percentage of the second-year MBA class to make the views presented that much more valid," he wrote in a letter to Lawrence E. Fouraker, Baker Professor of Administration and dean of the faculty of Business Administration...