Word: safe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...National Security Council Executive Committee that was unknown even to members of the group until it was repeated paragraph after paragraph by Bartlett and Alsop. The Post story is filled with Druryisms and some language that seems to be left over from the magazine's serialization of Fail-Safe. Leaders negotiate "in the shadow of nuclear war" and make "the live-or-die decisions when the chips are down." As cliches mount, the reader half expects the next phone call to be answered by old Scab Cooley. But instead it is McGeorge Bundy who hears a CIAman...
...mysteries seem beyond the soaring ambition of radio astronomers. In the past, most cosmographical theories were concocted by mathematicians sitting in quiet rooms and struggling with streams of abstractions. They were safe from experimental check because optical telescopes could not see far enough into the depths of the universe. But radio telescopes are keener-sighted. They have located radio-galaxies that seem to be 7 billion light-years away. And their eyesight is bound to improve...
There is, however, no factual evidence that consciousness-expanding drugs are uniquely dangerous and considerable evidence that they are safe and beneficial. Any action or any stimulus may involve risk. But in law and science the concept "danger" must be proven clear and present. When we cut through rumor and hysteria, what are the published facts about consciousness-expanding drugs? The classic volume in this field (The Use of LSD in Psychotherapy, Josiah Macy Foundation, 1960) presents a table of "problems encountered" in 8,640 treatment doses and 3427 experimental doses, thirteen investigators reporting. Three problems were reported--"one disrobing...
...steroid compounds, Rock explained, are simply adjuncts to nature: the physiology of the safe period, marked by the production of progesterone, is identical with the effects of Enovid. Just as a woman's body has cycles to protect its offspring, a woman has an intellect to safeguard her marriage. "It may even be immoral," Rock said, "to refuse to use the intellect...
When asked what changes he plans to make at AID, Bell says he will not know until he gets there. But it is safe to bet that he will not reduce the dollar total...