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Overall, the President deserves high marks for jettisoning the deceptive-basing Multiple Protective Shelter system for the MX missile, a bold act which opens the way to a proper assessment of the entire strategic posture. His improvement in command and control will provide the basis for a "launch under attack" capability. This will insure against some unexpected Soviet breakthrough which would imperil the other two legs of our strategic deterent, i.e., a breakthrough in anti-submarine warfare or a breakthrough that would imperil the survival of our strategic aircraft. His proposal to develop both the MX and the Trident...
Mistletoe: Considered sacred by the ancient Druids, mistletoe was gathered in elaborate winter solstice ceremonies and distributed to all in attendance. The sprays hung over house entrances, signalled a propitiation and an offer of shelter to deities during the season of frost and cold. The plant was regarded as a symbol of future hope and peace, and whenever enemies met beneath it they would drop their weapons and embrace. Kissing under the mistletoe probably grew out of this practice. Originally used to deck churches, mistletoe was abandoned in favor of holly and ivy because as one chronicier reports...
...Patsy Award as the best animal actor in TV commercials. Adopted from a humane society, Morris became so famous that his "story" was told in Morris, an Intimate Biography. After he died in 1978, a 14-month search turned up a replacement in a Cape Cod animal shelter. This foundling, like his predecessor, lives on the six-acre kennel of Trainer Bob Martwick in Lombard, Ill. When Morris II flies-first class, of course-to Humane Society adopt-a-pet campaigns around the country, his popularity often leads enthusiasts to empty local shelters of felines. The cause is a good...
...elements of house transformation are often functional. Additions provide needed space as the family grows or help shelter automobiles. In Staten Island, one elderly man who had no use for his garage turned it into a glassed-in living room, retaining the sliding garage door. The aluminum or vinyl sidings are supposed to help save on the heating bill or protect deteriorating facades. Picture windows give more light and the appearance of being up-to-date. "If something is old, you should get rid of it and go toward the future," a Hoboken, N.J., homeowner told Vergara. "Time...
...million Americans who would survive beyond the shelter period, 34 million will be severely injured, and for them, "the single most important threat to life, outside of burn and blast injuries, will be infection," Abrams said...