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...wrong to read too much significance into the target shift of the Left's offensive from the Government to the University. The overwhelming SDS vote to concentrate on Harvard meant mainly that it was a far easier and a far safer target for action at the time. If activists had been serious about moving against the University--and they should have been--plans would have been made longer in advance, the day for the Massachusetts Hall sit-in would have been the day of a corporation meeting, demands would have been set, real investigations into Harvard's finances would have...
...emulate Sir Francis' accomplishment. As Sir Francis notes at one point: "I had no feeling of romance about the voyage yet but, of course, seasickness is very anti-romantic." By the end of Chapter 10, most readers will be willing to give up singlehanded sailing for a safer sport-say, skydiving...
...either. The only businesses are barrooms and army-navy uniform stores. One tavern, which the neighbors call "The Bucket of Blood," was the scene of a gangland murder a few years ago. There's another tavern, which they call "Dodge City," that is supposed to be a little bit safer. Then there's another bar called Frank the Gook's. In Frank the Gook's you can buy anything you want. Lined up with the bottles on the back part of Frank the Gook's bar are all sorts of things. Timex watches, kid gloves, candy bars, workmen's pants...
...antibiotic (up to $86 million in 1960, $72 million in 1966) have been in domestic prescriptions. For what? Far too often, testified Dr. Best, for the common cold and similar viral infections (for which no drug is of any use), and against many bacterial infections for which safer drugs are just as effective. Dr. Dameshek added acne to the list of conditions for which Chloromycetin should not be prescribed...
...invariably turns down applications by youths from the town. At the University of Georgia in Athens, the local branch of Atlanta's Citizens & Southern National Bank has been issuing credit cards, says Public Relations Officer Robert Clayton, "like they are going out of style." Still, some stores feel safer with nonstudents. J. L. Hudson Co. in Detroit, for example, extends credit to teen-agers only when they hold full-time jobs...