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Advances in weaponry development have been matched by changes in strategy and supply. Sobered by the lessons of 1973, when crucial time was lost in getting units and their armor to the front, the I.D.F. has since concentrated on quick response and mobility. Emergency stores of equipment that were kept in the central sector of the country before 1973 have been moved to the fronts. The amount of armor available at the fronts has also been heavily reinforced. Most
Dauntless is armed with a 3-in. gun that fires 3-ft.-long armor-piercing shells, two .50-cal. and two .30-cal. machine guns, plus M-16s and handguns. Perhaps its most useful weapon is a gigantic pair of powerful binoculars mounted on the roof of the wheelhouse. The crew calls them...
...years in the corporate world. Others, however, seem permanently tinted, chameleons that have mysteriously evolved into some slightly more agile species of lizard. Robert Almon, for example, wears the predictable colors: pink Oxfordcloth shirt, blue-and maroon-striped necktie, gray suit, black loafers as polished as medieval armor. One of six children of a Rhode Island family (his younger brother plays shortstop for the Chicago White Sox), Almon majored in psychology and literature at Brown University, then got an M.B.A. from Harvard in 1977. At 29, he now earns more than $40,000 as a manager of financial analysts...
...Club is not so much burlesque as carefully paced intellectual striptease. Male armor is dropped to exhibit emotional paralysis; egos wrapped in tough independence are peeled away to show a tender reliance; Playboy fantasies dissolve in humiliating complications. In addition, the author has an original way of derailing conventional narratives with a compact, satiric prose and ripe perceptions. "I feel you're feeling anger," says the host to his enraged wife. It is one of Michaels' many punch lines in this small marvel of modern comic irony...
...Intelligence Agency presented a series of recent satellite photographs. Among other things, the pictures showed equipment being unloaded from Soviet transport planes at the two Soviet divisional headquarters in Western Poland; various troop concentrations during the maneuvers; tent bivouacs in the western Soviet military districts, indicating that infantry and armor units had left their barracks and taken up positions closer to the Polish border...