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Given this context, however. Dean May's plan still contains serious drawbacks which only compound the weaknesses of the current situation. The Cliffies who are submitting their rooming applications next Monday were qualified by placing in the low third of their classes in a lottery for rooms. As a result, only the bottom 160 from each class may apply to Harvard and those 160 must choose their roommates from the group. While mathematically impeccable. such a lottery ignores the system of suites at Harvard. This sole criterion of numbers means that girls cannot necessarily room with their friends but must...
...yearly total of more than 1,000,000 tons of hydrogen cyanide, a deadly "blood gas" used in dyes. A similar quantity of ethylene oxide, used in detergents and disinfectants, is turned out; mustard gas, World War I's most effective chemical killer, is easily derived from the compound. The latest nerve gases have close cousins in common organophosphorus pesticides; the U.S. produces nearly half of the worldwide output, which exceeds 130,000 tons per year...
...Germany. (The term's accuracy depends on the distinction that a state that is not technically fascist can use fascistic tactics.) Julian Bond's discovery of four years ago-that an American can be black and an American can dissent, but no American had better compound these two crimes-has become exiomatic today...
...much action nonetheless. When he arrived in the country in June 1968 as an "assistant military attache," he was posted to Muong Soui, a key town now in Communist hands. Bush's tour ended eight months later, when a force of 20 North Vietnamese commandos attacked his hilltop compound, a camp housing a group of Air Force radar specialists. The captain died fighting, and was awarded a posthumous Silver Star. Bush's wife Carol, who lives in Temple, Texas, with her daughter, says that her husband "believed in what he was doing." As his letters to her indicate...
Plummer and Carson came upon their theory while studying an entirely different planet-Venus. To determine the possible composition of the yellowish white atmosphere of Venus they decided to experiment with a little-known, foul-smelling liquid called carbon suboxide (C3O2). As the physicists increased its temperature, the compound solidified and underwent a series of color changes from pale yellow to orange, reddish brown, purple and a shade approaching black. Although the yellow vaguely resembled the tint of Venusian clouds, the range of colors was far more suggestive of the surface of Mars, which undergoes still unexplained variations in shading...