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...about the size of the state of New Jersey would require building 4,600 shelters and 9,000 miles of roads. Along the roadways, flatbed vehicles, forever rolling, would carry missiles tipped with ten warheads each. That is the $56 billion scheme for safeguarding the proposed MX system, a brobdingnagian shell game meant to foil a Soviet attack on the missiles. The plan has been derided as an ineffective, ecology-destroying boondoggle, and the MX now has a powerful new foe: leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who, Mormons believe, are divinely inspired when they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nix to MX | 5/18/1981 | See Source »

...since my birthday's not too far away, I'd like to blow out all the candles and wish that someone would knock off the Orioles this year--California or maybe the Brobdingnagian Pittsburgh Pirates--with about 16 homeruns in a four-game sweep. The Orioles are the most boring team in baseball, a gaggle of colorless Holy Rollers. Around the league they tell this story about how Tippy Martinez, Baltimore's top bullpen twirler, invited Earl Weaver to a 7:30 a.m. Sunday prayer breakfast...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Fenway Finale: Finishing With a Whimper | 10/3/1979 | See Source »

Despite his brobdingnagian frame (6 ft. 7 in., 240 lbs.), his ever present cigar and his gravelly bass voice, Paul Volcker is a man who likes to keep a low profile, to perform his financial wizardry as a bureaucratic technician rather than as a public figure. But such behind-the-scenes machinations have their frustrations. One night, after an International Monetary Fund meeting in Copenhagen, Volcker was so exasperated with his colleagues that he strode down to the Tivoli Gardens and proceeded to throw wooden balls in a booth full of china plates until he had smashed away his tension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Volcker to the Rescue | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...hole Ivy League golf championship held over the Yale Golf Course on Saturday was nothing short of a lollapalooza of the links. The Yale University course is a Scotch surrealist landscape featuring Brobdingnagian bunkers, Cecil B. DeMille greens, and on Saturday Yale's Peter Teravainen and Dartmouth's Joe Henley performed a rendition of "dueling birdies" that could have been choreographed by Busby Berkeley...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Flag, Falter in Ivy Tournament | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...game and ordered the trial to proceed; the jury needed only 30 minutes to return with a conviction. Another way to wear down the opposition is to "paper" a case by filing motion after motion, each requiring a timeconsuming, costly response. This leads to what one judge calls a "Brobdingnagian procedural imbroglio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Those | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

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