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Does America need 1,600 different varieties of frozen desserts? The answer to that weighty question is a resounding yes. Responding to an apparently insatiable consumer appetite for exotic frozen concoctions, U.S. food companies are producing a dazzling array of new products, from fruit bars and candy-coated ice cream to soft-frozen yogurt and brownie bars. In the process, the size and diversity of the $1.6 billion frozen-novelty market have grown spectacularly. That category includes all frozen desserts sold in individual portions, which have nearly doubled their sales in the past five years. The industry's burgeoning roster...
...moment, the plan has hit even rougher waters at home from those who think a challenge is being thrown to Iran without full consideration of the risks. A broad array of critics has come out opposed. Henry Kissinger, despite his sensitivities to Soviet aggrandizement, warned of the implications of a U.S. tilt toward Iraq in its 6 1/2-year war with Iran. Jeane Kirkpatrick advised the Administration to go slow. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat, called Reagan's plan "half baked, poorly developed." Said his Republican counterpart, Bob Dole of Kansas: "I don't think anyone knows...
...showpiece of the operation was the Navy's Deep Drone, a sophisticated undersea robot. The drone was connected to the U.S. Navy tug Apache by an umbilical cord that transmitted commands and returned data from an array of cameras and sensors to shipboard computers and monitors. An acoustical locating system, accurate to within 20 in., will guide scientists in assembling a photomosaic of the more than 2,000 high-resolution still photographs the drone has taken of the ship's hull. In addition, a sonar scan will be used to make a false-color three-dimensional computer...
According to former University Treasurer and Corporation member George Putnam '49, an increasingly complicated array of medical schools and hospitals under Harvard's wing may prompt the seven-man board to look at a medical expert for the board...
...Americans struggle to understand how a senseless military mishap in the Persian Gulf cost the lives of 37 sailors, Congress is concerned that the U. S. will be drawn into the Iran- Iraq war. -- Analysts ponder why the Stark, with its array of electronic gadgetry, was unable to defend itself. -- Could the planned 600- ship Navy become a fleet of sitting ducks? See NATION...