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...board and off, the good-natured interchange persisted. Take a Soviet by the arm, bring him or her to a quiet corner and ask whatever burning question comes to mind. No problem. Have a drink together, or dinner; go on deck in the evening and talk about literature or politics, as the light fades and the densely wooded banks of the river grow dark and eerie. One night, somewhere between Prairie du Chien, Wis., and Dubuque, Iowa, Dmitri Agrachev, the cruise's official Soviet interpreter, was playing Scrabble, in English, with three Americans. "It's not a very nice word...
...Navy had launched the first, and still most famous, of the new submersibles, Alvin. Operated by Woods Hole, the 23-ft.-long craft could carry three people to a depth of 6,000 ft., pick up objects with an arm and claw, and roam the sea floor at a speed of one knot (Alvin has since been lengthened to 25 ft. and given a second arm-claw, as well as a new pressure hull that enables it to operate as far down as 13,120 ft.). The stellar performance of the tiny sub during the second Titanic mission was only...
FAAD would use heavy missiles on an armored chassis in conjunction with lighter missiles carried by trucks. In building the Sergeant York, the Army had trouble deciding whether to arm it with missiles or guns. This time it chose both. FAAD would also include 50-cal. guns on M1 tanks and 25-mm cannons on Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. In theory, the elements would work together through a system of airborne and ground-based sensing devices...
...Latin America, to worship the mother as an extension of the Virgin Mary. (In Spanish, the phenomenon is known as marianismo.) But the undeniable fact is that, in a society in which the newspapers (with one exception) were silent, the courts were a farce, the police formed an arm of the military government and members of opposition groups were being tortured and murdered in some 340 clandestine, Naziesque concentration camps, the mothers were the only group that forced the people of Argentina to face a horror they would have rather continued to ignore...
...first met on a polo field when both of them were four, their romance was sparked not by a sudden glance or even a heartfelt declaration but, well, by a profiterole actually. The cupid's confection came into play at Ascot last year, when a boisterous Andrew put his arm around Fergie and tried to stuff the cream-filled cake into her mouth. The girl who last week vowed to obey him winged the pastry back at his royal person...