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Both camps were gone by the time the wet sidewalk was jammed with a Hollywood pantheon of the Reagan generation, full of wine and weariness and all wanting their cars (CHUCK'S PARKING - PLEASE STOP HERE read the sign out front). "Bloody undignified," grumped a silver-haired BBC man, "standing in the rain in an alley in Los Angeles...
...this time it was worse. Last week's floods, high waves and winds left at least 16 dead, caused more than $160 million in damage, and forced 10,000 residents to flee their threatened or damaged homes. "I'm getting tired of this," said San Francisco Meteorologist Chuck Terrell...
Franklin ("Chuck") Spinney, 37, a quiet but dogged Pentagon analyst, thus became the unlikely hero of an intensifying reform movement that is challenging the way the defense Establishment does business. At issue is an entire philosophy of military spending that has governed Pentagon practices for a quarter-century. At stake may be the nation's ability to defend itself for the next quarter-century...
...combined role of mystery man and maverick was not one that Chuck Spinney sought, or especially welcomed. Says Defense Analyst Pierre Sprey, whose reform theories have influenced Spinney's thinking: "He is an involuntary iconoclast." Spinney protests that he is no enemy of military spending; he just wants the nation to get value for its dollar. Says he: "My view is that our country has to be strong and that we have to have the military assets to ensure that strength." He adds a bit plaintively: "People have the idea that I'm out to find things wrong...
Bushnell, who started the successful Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater fast-food chain, is no stranger to the merchandising of fantasy: he created Pong, the first commercial video game, and founded Atari. He has invested more than $1 million in Androbot and packed BOB with three times the calculating power of an IBM Personal Computer. This provides the robot with an enormous potential for processing information, storing it in its memory and performing preprogrammed tasks. Some observers think Bushnell's entrepreneurial instincts are on target again. "Personal robots are the next hot thing in technology," predicts...