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...source of material, a vocabulary of its own. Nabokov says that many popular writers "simply don't exist" for him. Nabokov has his own firm canon of tastes--for protection from all the books which come charging down from the past, reputations fixed, for cover under which to deploy his own literary formations and figures...
Some basic questions have already been raised by experts about conventional ideas of how to deploy armor and airpower on the battlefield. Ian Smart, deputy director of Britain's Royal Institute of International Affairs, notes that "Soviet technology in Arab hands has consigned to history" an era in which the "tank and aircraft ruled the battlefield." The introduction of new highly mobile and simply operated antiaircraft and antitank missiles, Smart argues, "marks a transformation that recalls the way in which the longbow enabled the English foot soldier of the 14th century to overcome the mounted knight. The Arab guiding...
...create social movements, not to tell Vietnamese peasants or U.S. students that all is not well with their world. Revolutionaries must provide a reasonable explanation for that confusion. The battle of ideas is the primary task, and socialists in this country have not even begun to deploy their troops...
...reactivate the Eastern Front, composed of contingents from Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the Palestine Liberation Army. The idea, which was strongly supported by Hussein's good friend Feisal, was that the regrouped Arab military presence would, at the least, be an inconvenience to Israel, forcing it to deploy additional troops along its frontiers. For his part, Hussein had every reason to seek a rapprochement with Egypt and Syria and a resumption of Arab subsidies so long as he did not have to permit a return of the fedayeen...
...different kinds of canopies were tested underwater in the big tank at Huntsville, where conditions of weightlessness can be simulated; the astronauts found that it was possible to deploy the devices. But NASA gave top priority to a third, untested device: the so-called "parasol" canopy. One reason: the astronauts would not have to leave Skylab to put it in place. Resembling a beach umbrella, the canopy is made up of a 22-by-24-ft. sheet of aluminized Mylar and nylon attached to a long pole consisting of seven 4-ft. sections. An astronaut could extend the pole...