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...reformed its testing procedures. Though it was temporarily suspended as a military supplier in 1982, the firm this year expects to sell the Pentagon $75 million worth of weapons parts, or about 8% of total sales. Said National President Charles Sporck: "We now follow every dot and every dash of every military specification." The Pentagon hopes its prosecution of National will persuade other contractors to be no less careful...
Donning Levi's and a college T shirt emblazoned STANFORD is not an act of political rebellion but of status seeking. For Soviet youngsters, Western products proclaim to their friends, "I can get what I want." A scarf with a designer signature adds a dash of color to what can be a gray existence. Nor are Soviet officials immune to the temptations; it is often their children who are first to sport the latest Western clothes, courtesy of a trip abroad or a state store reserved for the elite. "What cannot help alarming us," Chernenko said last year...
...added three 6.0s in the scores for composition or technical merit. They did it despite choosing music, Ravel's Bolero, that does not contain a change of tempo, supposedly a requirement. But to Torvill and Dean, ice dancing is much more than a Roseland medley of a dash of tango, a pinch of waltz, then up and out with some fancy polka footwork. In place of the rules, they offered an idea: music as movement, not scaffolding; skating as expression, not simply virtuosic display...
...women doubles will be Grace de-Fries, running 1500 and 800 meters; Kathryn Busy, sprinting 200 and 400 meters: Alice Neuhauser, who in pursuit of a pentathlon victory will double in the 55-meter dash and the 200-meter run, and Kate Wiley, who will run the vast total of 8000 meters, with runs in both the 5000-and 3000-meter events...
...might be cerebral," muses one female crook, "but not about women." With a dash of irony and a hint of irreverence, Ann Cornelisen puts that theory to the test in her puckish new novel. Determined to tease men out of their cozy gallantry, and also to expose Italy's rococo inefficiency, a sextet of foreign women in a sleepy Tuscan village decide to rob a local mail train. Plotting the crime as if it were a script, they adopt literary aliases, don disguises and then, without much difficulty, carry off the million-dollar theft. The lackadaisical local police force...