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...Stephen F. Vatner, associate professor of medicine and a researcher at the New England Primate Center, said yesterday that stray dogs ands cats are better for scientific work because they give a wider range of results...
...counterbalanced by an American advantage in numbers of MIRVed missiles. He conceded us 1,100 MIRVed missiles over the extended term of the agreement, vs. 1,000 for the Soviets. We considered the 100-missile advantage inadequate because of the Soviet lead in other categories. I proposed a considerably wider gap in our favor. Brezhnev rejected it at first with the comment: "If I agree to this, this will be my last meeting with Dr. Kissinger because I will be destroyed." But if past practice and actual Soviet conduct were any guide, more realistic figures would soon emerge...
...class of '64 was also one of the last to graduate into a society relatively untouched by the Vietnam War. Gunnoe refers to his years as "the halcyon days, prior to the war building up...People felt they could do most anything they wanted to after graduation." There were wider possibilities for draft deferment then, before the crunch came in 1966. "Options tightened with the war, but we were full of possibilities." Gunnoe remembers...
...station and the Oranges' house in North Austin lay six miles of dry Texas land, minus the cacti and split by the freeway. The road had six lanes heavily populated with loud, fast Camaros, Continentals, VW buses, and larger vehicles. The side street the Oranges live on is wider than Mass. Ave; in fact, their driveway is wider than Mass...
...which offers balance to the free-heeled skier. One ski is extended beyond the other until the skier is crouching. The rear ski rudders the front one into the turns necessary for steep downhill flights. One aficionado calls it "genuflecting on the run." A new generation of skis, slightly wider than the usual touring model and metal-edged for downhill curve cutting, is doing a brisk business in sports shops. Telemarking classes have become standard fare at the larger touring centers. There are even the first North American Telemark Championships in the offing. They will be held this March...