Word: preventing
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This proposal would reduce the importance and autonomy of individual departments, and many will resent it. But the advantages of interdepartmental teaching are substantial. By imposing control from the top, it would permit the faculty to survey the entire program and thereby prevent the overlap which now plagues the curriculum. The report of the Subcommittee on Curriculum Planning should be studied carefully by the faculty and improved where necessary But it will be unfortunate if the debate stretches out for more than a year, making it impossible to institute the system next September...
...PATROL (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). In "Kill or Be Killed Raid," on a mission against Rommel's Afrika Korps, the Rat Patrol's leader, Sergeant Sam Troy, played by Christopher George, is forced to attempt to kill one of his own men to prevent him from falling into German hands...
These lapses into the obvious are far enough apart not to prevent the production from being a fast-moving, funny play. But they are powerful enough to shut up the still, small voice of conscience underneath the dialogue...
Admittedly, Harvard has the type of defense which will yield the short yardage to prevent the long one, but the Crimson pursuit on the line was less than quick, and the defensive ends were invariably being wiped out by the first two blockers leading the play. Big Dave Davis, though not expected to play, joined Skip Sviokla at tackle to put occasional pressure on Marshall...
Even the flight's one notable failure -the unexpected early end to Astronaut Richard Gordon's space walk - provided scientists with valuable data that may help prevent similar problems on future missions. It was also a humbling reminder that for all his powerful rockets, com plex capsules and sophisticated electron ics systems, man's frail frame itself is the limiting factor in space exploration...