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...this point, however, there is an extraordinary gap in the argument: Piel does not discuss the effectiveness of fall-out shelters, granted the experts' assumptions about the enemy's attack design. Instead, he denies these assumptions, and spends a great part of his article describing the nature and effects of an attack on a heavily-populated area. These are, to be sure, harrowing pages to read; but since he has already said that "no responsible official or consultant suggests that anyone can be protected against what are called the 'prompt' effects of nuclear weapons: the initial radation, heat and blast...
...interest in survival as a basis for negotiations and agreements," one must beware of assuming that "just because we would take unilateral measures in the direction of peace, the Soviet Union would take parallel unilateral measures. It might just as well do the opposite, and take advantage of the gap thus opened...
...Churches in New Delhi, Pusey was chairman of a committee to look at the past activity of Council representatives and to form guide lines on current issues for the next six years. The Council normally convenes every six years; its last meeting, however, was in 1954. The seven-year gap was due to an unstable situation in Ceylon, which prevented a conference last year...
Undoubtedly the best race of the meet was the 200 yard breaststroke. For the first six laps Crimson sophomore Bill chadsey held a six foot lead over Army's Steve Childers. But then the gap began to close; for the last lap the two were neck and neck until Chadsey gave an extra lunge at the finish to touch out Childers in a time of 2:24.9. Chadsey's time was nearly three seconds better than last week's and only one and one-half seconds away from 1961 captain Bill Schellstede's Harvard record...
...survival of Castro's regime completely depends on Assistance from the Soviet Union, Raymont observed, should that not fill the gap left by the U.S. embargo, Cuba would be in severe trouble...