Word: save
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Believing that shelters may save lives is not sufficient grounds for building such structures; the situation is not so clear cut that one may state, "Something is better than nothing." The dangers, if any, of a shelter program must be compared with the benefits that shelters might give. The first is to decide on the probability that shelters might save lives among the members of the Harvard community. First it should be noted that most of these people will be in the vicinity of the shelters for only about one-half of the year. If one estimates the probability...
...noted that this might be the case, but felt that shelters were warranted by the possibility that a no-cities war might be fought or that a U. S. warhead might accidentally explode in the vicinity of Boston. In either of these events, shelters properly equipped and used, might save thousands of lives in the Cambridge area...
...accelerates encompasses an ever-expanding field. But there have been seminars, and seminars, and seminars, that have lacked both breadth and "centrifugalness." As the proportion of seminar leaders drawn from the junior faculty increases, there is little reason to suppose that the proportion of narrow seminars will decrease. To save the freshman's program from schizophrenia--Gen. Ed. courses on one side, seminar on the other--the seminars need the guidance of the Committee on General Education...
Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Trevor Howard trying to save the African elephant in The Roots of Heaven, with Errol Flynn, Orson Welles and Eddie Albert...
What Relief?, in THE NATION section, ruefully discusses how any dollars a taxpayer may save from a Kennedy tax cut will merely go back, in most cases, to the tax-hungry states...