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...Pentagon's interest in high-tech fighters and the Administration's desire to publicize its military buildup in an election year. If successful, the plane, which will serve as a laboratory for new systems, will become a blueprint for fighter jets of the future. Says Robert Cooper, director of the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency: "We decided we had to return to the days when we were willing to take major risks to make spectacular advances...
Brick's father, "Big Daddy" Pollitt, who is unaware that he is dying of cancer. The illness has drawn his other son, Cooper, and daughter-in-law to the family mansion to try to win first place in line for his estate-"Twenty-eight thousand acres," as Big Daddy boasts, "of the richest land outside of the Valley Nile...
...Fixx, doctors say, it is that warning signs are meant to be needed. Fixx knew that his family history put him at high risk for heart disease, and yet the runner was "really negligent" about seeing doctors, says ex-Wife Alice Kasman Fixx. According to Dr. Kenneth Cooper, founder of the Aerobics Center in Dallas, Fixx may have been running from the truth. Last December, while testing a number of other runners, Cooper urged his friend to have his heart function evaluated with a treadmill stress test, but "for reasons known only to himself," Fixx refused. "The second most common...
...Thomas Cooper, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, reported these findings to members of a House Armed Services subcommittee, which scheduled hearings on the disposal of military surplus for later this month. Meanwhile, congressional investigators vied with Pentagon inspectors to see who could uncover the most tooth-gnashing tales of wasteful disposal. Among them: > The Navy sold eleven Gearing-class destroyers to foreign countries (Taiwan, Greece, Mexico, South Korea, Turkey and Pakistan) in 1981 and '82 for a total of $5.2 million. But, says the General Accounting Office, the ships should have been valued at $36.4 million. They were...
Frances H. Cooper, a committee member said the new superintendent will "really have to give private schools a run for their money...