Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reggie Smith's arm...
...Tanner cannonball? Will the weekend buff find Chris Evert's steady groundstrokes in a $69 graphite frame by Yamaha, or is the operator so poor that the tool required is a $200 (unstrung) Aldila Cannon? The questions are important because the racquet is "an extension not just of arm but of self. Between points, a player can often be seen fondling a racquet that has served him well. A few bad shots, and it will bear the brunt of self-abasement as it is flung to the ground or hurled against a wall...
...PARTISANSHIP. The Department had been wounded. There was a suspicion both outside and inside that it might be expected to be a partisan arm of the Executive Branch. The purpose of my appointment and my taking the job was to show that that was not to be true, that the department could operate in a highly professional, nonpartisan way. Every action I took, so far as I could tell, was toward that point. Parts of the department had been set up so they reacted to calls from the White House, and this made the department vulnerable to manipulation. The department...
...BACK corner of the basement of the Science Center Library, Rand Corporation reports fill 130 feet of shelf space. At one end of the shelves are technical reports from the early '50s, when the new corporation was essentially a research and development arm of the Air Force. At the other end are sociological studies done for the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in the spring of this year. Between 1950 and now, Rand researchers seem to have studied subjects as diverse as any in the world, as well as a few beyond this world at NASA's request...
...last week at the age of 63, Britten died peacefully in bed when his weakened heart gave out. He had never fully recovered from open-heart surgery early in 1973 for implantation of an artificial heart valve. He came out of the anesthesia with partial paralysis of his right arm. The pity was that it ended his performing career. Playing with Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his friend Tenor Peter Pears, with whom he shared a semi-manorial brick house in Aldeburgh, Britten was a deft, expressive accompanist at the piano. He was an exceptional conductor, not only...