Word: breakthrough
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Fort Drum is huge. You could lose Detroit inside its perimeter and still have room for Manhattan Island and then some. Its rolling hills resemble the Rhineland, and this year's exercise, appropriately enough, involves a breakthrough by "Soviet" forces. Early Sunday the influence of legendary Tanker George Patton is obvious. Major General Joseph A. Healey, 50 (general manager, public services, New York Telephone Co.), trim and tough in freshly pressed greens, tells unit commanders, "These few days are precious. Begin to get angry about your mission of killing 'Russians...
...Soviet Union currently generates 10% of its electricity from nuclear sources, and the present Five-Year Plan calls for construction of ten reactors a year. Pyotr Neporozhny, the Soviet Minister of Electric Power Development and Electrification, announced at the meeting that his country had recently made a major technical breakthrough toward nuclear fusion. If the Soviets could construct a successful nuclear fusion reactor, it would deliver about five to ten times the power of a now commonly used fission reactor...
...returned home with his reputation as a statesman intact, and with a promise of progress on arms-reduction talks. The Soviets, reported Schmidt, had abandoned two key preconditions for entering into negotiations with the U.S. on limiting the deployment of intermediate-range missiles in Europe. "This is not a breakthrough," Schmidt told the Bundestag on his return, but "it opens a chance of preventing an unfettered arms race in this field...
...tots weaving tiny finger patterns in the air. At least one major theater, Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, reserves two performances of every production for the deaf, with a translator using sign language at the side of the stage to tell what the actors are saying. A major breakthrough came last month when Children of a Lesser God, a play about the romance of a deaf woman and a hearing man, virtually swept the Tonys, Broadway's equivalent of the Oscars. The most surprising award was to Phyllis Frelich, 36, the first deaf person ever to have...
Nike's breakthrough came as a result of some Sunday-morning fiddling by Bowerman in 1975. He began tinkering with the waffle iron that had just been used to make breakfast. With some urethane rubber, he fashioned a new type of sole whose tiny rubber studs made it springy. Bowerman ruined the iron, but he created a new running shoe that was soon grabbed by the army of week end jocks suffering from bruised feet...