Word: saves
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This is not a happy prediction and I hope I am wrong, for America is by no means prepared either intellectually or emotionally for such an outcome. In fact, if we are to save ourselves from a long, angry season of divisive name-calling and isolationist frog-croaking, we had better get down to realistic discussion as soon as possible...
...what? Lose? What we're darn sure going to lose is all national honor if we can't recognize our mistake and quit fighting just to "save honor...
Taking no chances that year-end frivolity will get in the way of his scheme. Castro is delaying Christmas, New Year's and the Jan. 2 anniversary of the revolution. Celebrations would only "interrupt the harvest," he explained last week. So, he said: "We will save our suckling pig and Christmas Eve beans, Bacardi rum and beer for July." What if the 1970 harvest falls short, as outside experts predict? Who knows? Perhaps in that case the Bearded One will hold off the other bearded one, Santa Claus, a while longer...
Tommy Strunk, a 28-year-old Kentucky railroad worker, was slowly dying of a kidney disease. According to doctors, the only therapy that could save him was a kidney transplant, and the best donor would be Tommy's brother Jerry, 27. But Jerry, though he idolizes Tommy, is confined to a state mental hospital. Even if he had fully understood the crisis, Jerry was mentally incompetent to authorize surgery on himself...
...Welfare Island new-town project, with its emphasis on relatively low buildings, its extensive parklands, its constraints on automobile use, and its considerable freedom for the pedestrian, represents the kind of venture that might save New York City. But why should such techniques be employed only in "new" towns and not in the old ones where most Americans live? Mayor Lindsay should now think about giving the pedestrians of New York more room and the drivers less, about turning clogged streets into park-lined walk ways open at certain hours to commercial and emergency auto traffic...