Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nuclear blackmail by India. The people of Pakistan are ready to offer any sacrifices and even eat grass to ensure nuclear parity with India." Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, who has been spending billions of dollars in recent years on conventional armaments, warned darkly: "If small nations arm themselves with nuclear weapons, Iran will seek possession of them sooner than you think...
...Newly armed with a knowledge of 8-to-10 pin cables, mike mixers and battery packs, Fayard recruited Reporter-Researchers Jean Vallely and Edward Tivnan, Production Assistant Leonard Schulman and Ray Kennedy, a ringer from SPORTS ILLUSTRATED'S writing staff, to be the cast of "The Stickball Show," a celebration of New York City's favorite street game. With Reporter-Researcher Audrey Ball on hand as crew-person, Fayard taped a half-hour extemporaneous discussion of stickball paraphernalia, followed by a spirited demonstration of the game. After holding the 20-lb. camera for a while, says Fayard...
...sided Bruces are operated from an underwater platform with a huge, cranelike arm. Hydraulically powered and manipulated by the arm, Bruce is agile enough to sink a ship, which he does. All-Around Bruce, known as the "free-floater," is controlled by a towing boat with a 300-ft. pneumatic line. That Bruce, says Creator Mattey, "has unlimited running room, like a person on water skis being pulled on the open...
...spindly three-legged spacecraft sits silently on the dry, barren landscape. Suddenly, on command from controllers some 200 million miles away, the robot comes alive. A motor whirls; a slender, 10-ft. long arm reaches out, opens a small scoop and digs up some of the reddish soil...
...Then the arm retracts, twists its wrist and drops the dirt into a small, mesh-covered opening on top of the spacecraft. Inside, analyzers go to work. Within a few weeks, the spacecraft sends a momentous radio message back to earth: Life exists on Mars...