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...Reagan Administration may be eager to achieve a clear technical edge, but during the past four decades such strategic leads have always proved temporary. By the time the other side catches up and serious negotiations begin, the investments in the new weapons are so swollen that striking a bargain is all but impossible. It would have been far simpler to negotiate nuclear arms control in the early 1950s, when the technology was primitive and the arsenals dinky, or in the early 1960s, before ICBMs had proliferated. Similarly, it would be easier to bargain and control space weapons right away than...
American dairy farmers, it seems, have been extraordinarily successful at milking the Treasury as well as their herds. Although the total number of dairy cows has gone steadily up since 1979 and milk output has swollen accordingly, the Government's generosity makes it profitable for farmers to produce still more. One unhappy result: the Government is holding almost 17 billion lbs. of surplus "milk equivalent"-mounds of milk, butter and cheese-in warehouses and caves around the country under a price-support program that cost taxpayers $2.5 billion in fiscal...
...recent injury to Sophomore quarterback Brain White epitomizes the team's situation. Last week during practice White went over to Restic and showed the coach a purple passing arm swollen to one and a half times its normal size. White who Restic says would have started the Dartmouth game was rushed to the hospital and a blood clot was removed from his shoulder...
Logic lies on the side of the government; the numbers permit no appeal. But love, a formidable counterforce, lies on the side of babies. Even now, China cannot feed its newly swollen cities; 15 million tons of imported grain were needed last year...
They run the risk of being sneered at as bubbleheads, but hay fever sufferers can find relief from runny noses, swollen eyes and itchy throats by donning a Martianesque headpiece called the Hincherton Hayfever Helmet. It consists of a clear plastic dome, enclosing the head, into which filtered, pollen-free air is wafted at low pressure. The battery-powered fan, electrostatically charged filter and helmet weigh about 4 Ibs. and are attached to the body by a harness or belt. The inventor, British Architect Richard Hinchliffe, 45, himself a longtime hay fever sufferer, claims that wearing the helmet...