Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author tries to like his old boss, but phrases like "royal hauteur," "the armor of arrogance" and "unreflective activist" keep popping up. He admires the gubernatorial record, but is disturbed by what he feels was Rockefeller's emotional freeze after ordering the grisly assault on rebellious prisoners at Attica. Behind the image of a liberal Republican was an old-fashioned cold-warrior and bare-taloned hawk, who dismissed all Viet Nam draft resisters with the remark, "Those guys just didn't want to get killed...
...would be rotated onto the review board and say, 'What's the matter with you guys? That thing can't carry both. Change it.' " The vehicles ended up indeed carrying both, and costing $1.4 million apiece. Another problem: the Army decided that it wanted more armor for the IFV. But the extra plating made the vehicle too wide to fit into the C-141 cargo plane, which is supposed to haul it. So the vehicle must be partly dismantled to be carried by the C-141, and would have to be reassembled on the scene...
...Army's new M-l Abrams tank illustrates both the problems and the potential of overcoming Soviet numbers with advanced technology. At its best, the 60-ton monster is a marvel, roughriding over terrain at 35 m.p.h. while firing its 120-mm cannon with remarkable accuracy. Its revolutionary armor provides protection several hundred times as great as that of the M60, which the new tank replaces. Yet the M-l has been plagued with problems during development, and costs have now reached $2.43 million apiece (compared with $1.2 million for the M-60). The main problem was that...
...Berkeley and at SRI International are studying a frightening flaw in the programming of many computer systems that could allow criminals who find it to get around standard security measures. For obvious reasons, the investigators refuse to disclose the nature of this chink in a computer's armor until companies have had a chance to solve the problem. Says Charles Wood, a member of SRI's computer-security research team: "It's the most serious widespread threat to computers that we've encountered...
...crotchety old coot he appears. Rather, he is a wonderfully warm fellow who happens to be obsessed with death. Norman and Ethel are, of course, very much in love. One can debate whether any woman can get away with calling her husband a "knight in studding armor" in a movie or on stage. I doubt whether anyone could. Katherine Hepburn, though, takes a stab at it and dogs as credible a job as one could imagines. It is just that sort of relationship...