Word: hidden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nightmare of America's military experts, as they survey the 1,054 Minuteman and Titan missiles hidden beneath the Western plains, is that increased Soviet missile accuracy will soon make them all vulnerable to a surprise attack. Their answer: build a new missile that is both powerful and movable, so that the Soviets can never zero...
...death of the California couple underscores a hidden peril in one of America's latest crazes. Some 300,000 Americans have installed hot tubs in their homes and gardens, and another 120,000 are expected to be sold in the U.S. this year. Soothing and relaxing as the warming waters may be, the mini-spas can be killers. Typical of some hot-tub owners, the LaRozas had heated the water to about 114° F (46° C). Doctors and tub manufacturers recommend only 102° to 104° F (39° to 40° C), and even these...
...today, while the Radcliffe Board of Trustees works to justify its theoretical role as a hidden helping hand for undergraduate women, its constituents are reiterating the positions of Eliot and Conant--in practice, Radcliffe women are taking courses from Harvard's faculty, eating meals in Harvard's dining halls, using Harvard's libraries, laboratories, and classrooms, and living in Harvard's dormitories...
...made the case for this side of sexual inspiration (as carefully distinguished from practice) more bluntly than Los Angeles Psychoanalyst Robert J. Stoller. In his new book, Sexual Excitement (Pantheon; $11.95), he says: "It is hostility-the desire, overt or hidden, to harm another person-that generates and enhances sexual excitement. The absence of hostility leads to indifference and boredom...
Despite these warning signals, the U.S. team expected the Russians at least to respond with a counterproposal. Vance had come to Moscow with top-secret "fallback" instructions for a compromise. These were hidden even from members of his own entourage. When some middle-level officials arrived early at the U.S. embassy for a briefing on their side's negotiating position, they found William Hyland at work with a pair of scissors, clipping out the fallback instructions before showing the document to the rest of the party. That evening at the VIP guesthouse in Lenin Hills, there was much grumbling about...