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...could show me that a nearly perfect system could be built, and that it would be cheaper than Soviet countermeasures, I'd buy it," said Paul Carlson, director of research for the pro-freeze Union of Concerned Scientists, which claims 100,000 donors...
...Carlson said that SDI is likely to perpetuate the arms race because no shield system could possibly be effective enough to convince the U.S. to abandon its nuclear weapons. He also cited the Reagan administration's argument that SDI could be used to protect U.S. missile silos as proof that the program is more an aid than an end to the use of nuclear weapons...
...faculty of 500 boasts more Harvard Ph.D.s than any other Massachusetts school except Harvard. Teachers are drawn to UMASS by the research opportunities, salaries ($48,000 for a full professor) and the 12,500 highly motivated students, whose average age is 27. Says Senior Bob Carlson, 24: "Students here are hustlers. They're concerned about the community . . . they want things for their families...
...secure, welladjusted CEOs it can be an unpleasant experience. Certainly it has proved a difficult task for Harry Jack Gray, 65, the chairman of Hartford-based United Technologies. Four potential successors have come and gone at United Technologies during the past six years. Last September, Heir Apparent Robert Carlson suddenly resigned as president, amid reports that Gray had allegedly wiretapped his office and home. An investigation by the company's directors uncovered no evidence of such skulduggery...
...Kurt Carlson, 38, Rockford, Ill., roofing contractor. When he realized a hijacking was in progress, he pulled the identification from his wallet that showed him to be a major in the Army Reserve and stuffed it underneath his seat. Unfortunately, Carlson had an official U.S. Government passport. He says, "They identified me as being diplomatic. They saw it as either CIA or FBI." Carlson was beaten severely over a period of 4 1/2 hours. "They started hitting me on the back of the shoulders with an arm of a chair that was torn off." He remained in mortal danger until...