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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Upon reading your review of Miss Susann's book and facing the distressing fiscal facts contained therein, I rushed forth and bought a color television set of heroic dimensions, broke off all diplomatic relations with my book clubs, and now, with shriveled soul and bated breath, I wait for the dawn of McLuhan's Millennium of Non-Linear Information...
...apply a recent Supreme Court decision by suspending voter literacy tests across the U.S. on the grounds that they discriminate against those who have had an inferior education. It would also abolish residency requirements for voting in presidential elections. But it would eliminate the Justice Department's advance review of voting laws and shift the burden of proof from the states to the Government. The effect of the proposed change would force the Justice Department back to the slower, more costly case-by-case enforcement of voting rights...
...Building Commissioner has at my request ordered a number of copies of the BOCA Code which will in the next few weeks be presented to a committee of Architects and Builders for review during the summer with the intention of proposing any amendments or recommendations that will make it more adaptable for the City of Cambridge. When their report is received it will be presented to the City Council for their consideration...
...kill other men. The nuclear bomb, unfortunately, is not the end of it. There is also chemical and biological warfare, known as CBW, a fount of doomsday weapons that the U.S. and Russia have been rapidly developing. Until recently, the docility of Congress toward Pentagon planning forestalled any real review of the hush-hush CBW program with its secret appropriations. Now, prompted by press reports and rumors, emboldened by the general concern over U.S. military policy, congressional investigators are demanding answers from the Pentagon. Why, in the nuclear age, does the U.S. also need chemical and biological weapons? How much...
...detoxifying the agent. While the immediate concern is the danger of transporting a deadly commodity by rail at a time when freight derailings are on the increase, the incident served to dramatize far more basic doubts about chemical and biological weapons. Last week President Nixon ordered a thorough review of the program by the State Department, Defense Department and Arms Control and Disarmament Agency...