Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richard Rodgers' Victory at Sea comes lilting over the loudspeakers as the men prepare for war. It is not real war?just a game?but the men are very serious as they take their places in the wide, two-story room. More than 100 of them, in dark-blue uniforms...
Reacting to what surely appears to be an imminent enemy attack, the U.S. commander orders two of his F-14 Tomcat supersonic fighters into the air. With their Phoenix missile system, the F-14s can shoot down both the Soviet jets and the missiles they fire. Into the air too...
The U.S.S. Hewitt is typical of the new style of U.S. warship. Officially, it is classified as a destroyer, but its 7,000-ton displacement is more than three times that of a World War II Fletcher-class destroyer. One deck below the bridge on this modern ship, inside the...
During the war Paul had shared a flat in London with Stacy Lloyd, one of his Virginia neighbors, and Lloyd's wife, Rachel, had been a friend of Mary's. After Mary's death, Rachel, who goes by the nickname Bunny, divorced Lloyd and in 1948 married...
He writes with good humor and some gallantry to an illiberal age. His reports of visits with Evelyn Waugh and Bertrand Russell are deft, and so is his mockery of computer-made verse ("Swish green albino dust/ Through avatars unborn"). Of this last, he adds, "Do you think I am...