Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...limit but not abolish ROTC at Harvard--has the advantage of appearing as a middle-of-the-road alternative to the two "extremes" of abolition and status quo. But this proposal would not solve the basic problems which ROTC's presence here poses and would probably create some serious new problems...
...later Premier Aleksei Kosygin received U.S. Senators Albert Gore and Claiborne Pell in Moscow and delivered a serious lecture on the dangers of either superpower attempting to jump ahead of the other in military strength. Both, he urged, should press on with negotiations for limiting anti-ballistic missiles and should seek ratification of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Now that Czechoslovakia is safely in hand, it seems that the Kremlin is finding it easier to be prudent...
During a recent symposium at Manhattan's Hospital for Special Surgery, doctors predicted that one out of every eight football players in the U.S., from the pros down to high school, will suffer a more or less serious knee injury this season. With 1,000,000 players in the U.S., said the doctors, this means "something like 125,000 knee injuries, at least 40,000 of which will require corrective surgery...
...rays, gamma rays and neutrons. They must also guard against a lesser-known product of atomic explosions called electromagnetic pulse, or EMP. In a recent Washington speech, Senator Henry Jackson, atomic-weapons specialist of the Armed Services Committee, insisted that despite five years of research, EMP still poses a "serious problem" to the nation's communications, radar and missile systems...
...hardly match the financial or legal power of corporations that value profit more than zoning, productivity more than preserving jobs. Regulation of corporate giants may require government that is equally powerful. Moreover C. Wright Mills may be right. Intertwined leadership in government and business may make impossible any serious regulation of industrial expansion. Further, to finance regulatory programs will require an active Congress. There is little hope of changing the conservative legislative balance so long as Congressional races are decided more often on personality or local economics than on national issues. The most 'idealistic' campaign for President will help only...