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...part, Goldwater felt the treaty exacted too high a price of the U.S. Said he: "Under this treaty we close the door on sure knowledge of the survivability of our second-strike capability, the very capability which, until now, has been the shield of peace in this world. We halt the search for the widest span of nuclear know-how at a point where the total test yields of the Soviet are a full third greater than our own. I will vote against this treaty because it will erode our military strength. I will vote against this treaty because...
...particles do not move in straight lines like the beam of a searchlight. Affected by the sun's magnetism they move in complicated curves and may hit a spacecraft from many directions. For this reason, says Van Allen, a spacecraft cannot be sheltered by simply putting an umbrellalike shield between...
...Real Hooper. Dr. Van Allen is more hopeful. He thinks that careful design of spacecraft, putting fuel, food, batteries and other heavy objects toward the outside as protective shields, will do much to shield astronauts against solar protons without adding much weight. In any case, he says, the peril from flares is not too great. During a 450-day period from October 1959 to February 1961, when he measured protons in space, 21 flares affected the earth. Most of them were not dangerous. But toward the end of November 1960 came three violent solar "events," one of which reached peak...
...time has this permissive attitude of the Harvard Administration resulted in embarrassment for the University. A liberal academic community profits from a great deal of activity, both controversial and conventional, and suffers only from its exclusion. In its effort to shield the University from "discredit," the Summer School has damaged its own intellectual potential, and discredited the name of Harvard far more effectively than could any of the speeches it so fears...
...Britain the foolish display of the anti-Greek demonstrators left unpleasant echoes. Those behind the riots, wrote the Daily Mirror, "are not merely leading woolly-minded undergraduates in woolly-minded peace protests; they are providing a shield for mischievous Communist agitation." The paper noted that "Greece is about the only country in eastern Europe free from dictatorship," then posed a question that self-advertised idealists have yet to answer: When was the last time they demonstrated in behalf of the political prisoners of Lithuania or Estonia or Latvia or Poland or Hungary or Rumania or Bulgaria or East Germany...