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Warns Christopher Foss, British editor of the authoritative Jane's Armour and Artillery 1979-1980: "The armor gap is so great that the West is falling hopelessly behind in getting vehicles into the field." By 1987, the U.S. Army hopes to deploy 7,000 XM1 tanks to counter the threat of the 25,000 T-72s and tens of thousands of other armored vehicles the Soviets will have by that year. But the Pentagon's goals are at the mercy of congressional cutbacks and increased production costs. Meanwhile, the Soviets are developing a brand-new tank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Confronting the Armor Gap | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

...cuts a formidable figure these days--football quarterback on a hot streak--making the long climb to his Kirkland lair. But somehow a name like that seems to demand a suit of armour and a damsel in distress. Yet Judson Burke St. John will settle for a plastic football helmet and a triumph with his mates over the dragons of New Haven...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: The Marquis of the Multiflex | 11/15/1979 | See Source »

...Belief in the case method won't be altered," Timothy W. Armour, assistant dean of the MBA program, says, adding he doesn't think Bok expected the school to change the case method much...

Author: By Steven R. Latham, | Title: How to 'Take Charge' and 'Run Something' | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

...Earth" to the unique acrobatics of Pilobolus, will perform in the Boston University Theater the weekend of June 1 and 2. Dinosaur, Boston's oldest modern dance troupe, dances the weekend of May 25 and 26, also in the B.U. Theater. Founded in 1968 by choreographer Toby Armour, the group has toured nationally with numerous performances in New York. Armour was a member of Greenwich Village's Judson Theater, which in the '60s was the center of the most influential interdisciplinary theater-modern dance work in New York. And the Hartford Ballet, which plays the B.U. Theater...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Dancing the Night Away | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

...people taking the exam were upset, but we did our best to accommodate the dislocation. We were more concerned about the students' safety," Armour said...

Author: By Stephen R. Latham, | Title: Bomb Threat Causes Clearing Of B-School, MIT Buildings | 3/9/1979 | See Source »

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