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...biological species and could even cause the annihilation of life on earth. If the "nuclear threshold" is crossed, i.e., if any country uses a nuclear weapon even on a limited scale, the further course of events would be difficult to control and the most probable result would be swift escalation. It is relatively unimportant how the "nuclear threshold" is crossed-as a result of a preventive nuclear strike or in the course of a war fought with conventional weapons, when a country is threatened with defeat, or simply as a result of an accident. In view of the above, nuclear...
...girl from Nebraska who comes to Cambridge on hefty scholarship. Struggling for grades to keep her scholarship, toughing out the competition for the Crimson. Anderson asks it all in a found affair with Joel "Silver Spoons" Higgins husband of her expository writing teacher, Loretta (M A S H) Swift...
That did not please Steel, who called Jenkins' swift decision "quite, quite daft." From the outset, Steel, 45, said that he would happily defer to Jenkins as the Alliance's elder statesman. Suddenly, he found himself threatened by a young politician as ambitious and well spoken as himself. Since the Liberals won more seats (17) than the S.D.P., Steel's M.P.s are already pressing for a larger say in Alliance affairs...
Close to home-Cambridge, that is--two places are worth a mention Jonathan Swift's is one of the more comfortable small clubs around town maybe a little too comfortable. Be prepared for a night of standing and elbows if you don't get there early Watch out for falling beer from waitresses rushing about Old time blues, reggae, folk, and '60s rock are featured here, and Albert King, Doc Watson and Robert Hunter are scheduled for dates this summer at this...
...seamless surfaces of Holbein's paintings hide the machinery, as they were meant to do. For the first impulses, the slow probings and swift appraisals of a face, one must consult the drawings: something easier said than done in America until now. Although there are paintings by Holbein in U.S. collections, the body of his graphic work is in England and on the Continent. The most important part of it belongs to the British royal family and is housed at Windsor; it comprises the many sketches Holbein made of the nobility and gentry at the court of Henry VIII...