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...does Soviet verification hardware stack up against this sophisticated array? Western experts say the Soviets use most of the same technologies but in cruder form. Some of their spy satellites still parachute film to earth for processing, instead of beaming pictures electronically. But the Soviets make up with quantity what they lack in quality. The U.S. has only two Keyhole satellites in operation, while Moscow orbited 31 Cosmos surveillance satellites in 1986 alone...
Only Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes, who as an expert on Russia advises the Reagan administration, said he watched and liked the whole film. "I expected something much cruder." Even he termed the plot "a little slow...
...about the new arrivals and how they fared. Except for Irish political dissidents, for whom Australia was the "official Siberia," the typical transportee was apt to be a small-time thief with at least one previous conviction. Those sent over for more genteel crimes inevitably felt superior to the cruder types, and the colony's earliest bureaucracy had the distinction of being "almost wholly made up of forgers...
That is an almighty freedom, absolute. We imitate it as we can, but human freedom is a cruder business. We sometimes manage to make the miraculous happen. But we have to work at it. Earthly freedom, where it exists, is a turbulent medium, full of rough winds and ironies. It is bracing and potentially dangerous. Freedom is a powerful animal that fights the barriers, and sometimes makes people wish for higher fences...
...resolution of a controversy involving the first book printed with movable metallic type. Most experts have awarded that honor to Gutenberg's two-volume, 1,282-page Bible, printed some-time between 1450 and 1455 with 42 lines of type a page. But doubts remained because of two cruder works of the mid-1400s: a rare 36-line Bible and a scrap of paper known as the Sibyllenbuch fragment, also printed in 36-line type. The question that has nagged scholars for years is whether these works were produced by Gutenberg or by someone known only as the 36-line...