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...experts fear that the new Soviet S59 missiles, with accurate multiple warheads, could knock out land-based U.S. ICBMs and give the Russians an advantage. Deployment of the SS-9s has been slowed, but the Nixon paper expresses concern that this may be only a pause while improvements are being made. Meanwhile, the U.S. is installing its own multiple-targeted missiles, but they are said to be too inaccurate and too small for pinpoint destruction of Soviet missile sites and are only retaliatory weapons against cities. Nixon is insisting that the U.S. must continue to protect its own sites with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Nixon's World: Facing Up to Realities | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...this surface and readings from their instruments, scientists concluded that the mountains had either pushed a few feet over the valley, or that the valley had thrust underneath the mountains. However they occurred, the sudden, complex movements led to a significant quake-strong enough to tumble walls and knock down highway bridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Shock to Seismologists | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

...sure Princeton's thinking that this is the first year in a long time that they're going to knock Harvard off." head track coach Bill McCurdy said yesterday about the Big Three meet at Princeton today. "I'll be goddammed if they're going...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Three Track At Princeton | 2/20/1971 | See Source »

...scenario is frightening. A big black truck from Building and Grounds (B and G), the police unit in this affair, pulls up outside Quincy House. Two men in white uniforms get out and come up to our room. They knock on the door; the door opens...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: We're Coming to Take You Away, Ha Ha | 2/9/1971 | See Source »

Harvard is a heavy favorite to step on Princeton, but if the Crimson can lose to Vermont and barely escape falling to Penn, they could even lose to Princeton. The Harvard players have some incentive to skate, however, knowing that a loss could knock them out of the Ivy League race and leave them flat for the Beanpot...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Skaters Face Weak-Kneed Tigers | 2/3/1971 | See Source »

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