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...overnight, Carter has begun sounding remarkably upbeat. At first it seemed the President hoped that by tinkering a bit with the American energy machine and by lessening the widespread tendency toward panic buying, he could shorten the lines at the pumps in California and vent some of the political pressure...
...Crimson's margin of victory was 12.5 seconds, close enough to the Yale bulge, and an even tighter match considering Yale and Penn rowed into a head wind--which is known to maximize race margins. Harvard and Penn rowed with a tail wind, which tends to shorten times between crews...
...will win in Rhodesia. But you can help us shorten the war." With those words, Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere urged the U.S. and Britain to renew and strengthen their efforts to bring peace to Rhodesia. The call came against a backdrop of increasingly violent warfare in that embattled country, where Cuban-trained black nationalist guerrillas are now using Soviet-supplied mortars, armor-piercing machine guns and heat-seeking antiaircraft missiles to battle Rhodesian forces equipped with helicopters, heavy artillery and Belgian automatic weapons. More than 1,000 soldiers and civilians died in September's fighting, about...
...Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 turned in what is probably among the longest Government theses ever written at Harvard; his magnum opus, on "The Meaning of History," ran for 383 pages, plus bibliography--and that was after he had cut out two chapters, in an effort to shorten it. The effort won Kissinger a summa, but not the gratitude of some of those in the department who did not want to read it all, and some years ago a maximum page limit was set to avoid the problem in the future...
...India regularly took more than 300,000 lives a year.) Physicians now know that the shock and threat of quick death from cholera result from the massive loss of body fluid-as much as several gallons a day-through diarrhea. They can prescribe antibiotics, especially tetracycline, which may shorten the duration of the diarrhea. The dehydration can also be reversed, and the patient rehydrated, with a simple solution containing common salt, baking soda, potassium chloride and glucose. If the patient is conscious and not vomiting too severely, he can take the solution orally. Otherwise, fluids must be given intravenously. Either...