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...much here for the good of the country as I can in any military assignment." And why? Says he: "Thirty years ago, we were hands-down the predominant military power. We were a totally independent economic power. We were the dominant power in the political sphere. Today we aren't predominant to that degree or anything like it. That isn't necessarily bad, but it means we have to be more intelligent...
...scientists are placing their bets on a different technique: "inertial confinement." This process involves the high-power laser or electron-beam bombardment of tiny pellets crammed with deuterium and tritium. The sudden application of the energetic beams causes instant vaporization, or boiling away, of the outer surface of the sphere. As the pellet coating flies outward, it pushes back against the deuterium and tritium, compressing and heating the mixture. If the impinging beams are energetic enough, the effect will be so great that the nuclei will fuse, releasing energy like a miniature H-bomb. Among others, researchers at Los Alamos...
...Burt: "If the U.S. decided not to keep pace with the Soviets in strategic competition, it could signal a lack of resolve to America's allies." Another danger is that the Soviets may try to take advantage of either a real or merely a perceived superiority and expand their sphere of influence. Says General David C. Jones, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff: "In many parts of the world, the Soviets have a local advantage in conventional arms. If we had less than rough [strategic] equivalence, I think the Soviets would be willing to be a bit more adventuristic, test...
...knows, however, I would feel equally charitable toward his report had he recognized in the first instance that the dispute between the Lampoon and the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Student Association was not a proper sphere for bureaucratic intervention. It would, in fact, have been better for the parties to have battled each other to bloody pulp than to have the Harvard...
...Quad Houses are an obvious "sphere", and University Hall initially chose to leave Currier open sinc its dining hall was the largest. Activist North House residents, students and masters reacted unfavorably to this proposal. Hanna Hastings, comaster of North, pointed out that proportionately more students--59 per cent--eat breakfast at North than any other House...