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While we . . . appreciate the steps the present administration has taken to make a risky business somewhat safer . . . we are not satisfied that this government has done all it can do to reduce tensions and the immediate danger...
Thus, the development of invulnerable slow reacting systems is essential, so that "both Russia and the United States will know that they can ride out an action, and that the other power can also ride out the action." This is probably "safer defense against war" than total disarmament, Halperin commented...
...Curved surfaces," Mr. Candela explains, "no matter what type, are always stronger. This is one reason why snail shells are curled, or why it is safer to design automobiles with curved pieces of steel...
...Dutch airline KLM now checks its airplanes regularly, and issues maps to point out the position of known masses of radioactive air. If a flight plan promises to take an airliner through too many contaminated clouds, a safer course can be chosen. Soon KLM will have radiation detectors riding in its planes to make sure that passengers and crewmen do not get dangerous doses of radiation...
Though the patient has since had a stormy recuperation, this may have been mainly because of the unavoidable severity of the operation. She has shown no signs of brain damage due to oxygen shortage. Her case opens a surgical horizon with possibilities of far safer and more effective operations for aneurysms ("blowouts" in brain blood vessels) and some brain tumors...