Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know Annenberg better, and was so impressed that in 1976 she made him an honorary knight. That odd affinity between the prim and discreet Queen and the rough-hewn millionaire partly explains why she accepted his invitation to join him for lunch last week at his desert estate near Palm Springs. Another probable reason was royal curiosity about the estate itself. "So many members of her family and friends have visited Sunnylands and told her so much about it," Annenberg explained...
Still, the Queen of England and the king of the Palm Springs desert would seem to have so little in common that even a member of the royal entourage seemed puzzled. Said he: "There are other ways the Queen could have spent her Sunday. One must assume some element of friendship between the two." Annenberg is reluctant to discuss their relationship. "One has to be terribly careful," he said last week, "or the iron curtain will fall around you just like that...
...what he does and not by what he is. And what he does is always tainted by easy accommodation and the habit of incessant compromise. He moves from trading slaves out of Charleston, S.C., and shipping pagan idols to China to reigning as a prophet in the Moroccan desert, finally ending up crowned "the Emperor of Self in a Cairo mad house, with a wreath of straw...
Military officers say the specs prevent cheating by contractors and help fill special needs. Perhaps the Pentagon did have to design a carrying case for a Bell & Howell 16-mm camera that could withstand both arctic cold and desert heat-but one may wonder whether the case is worth eight times as much as the camera it holds. Defense Department Engineer Ralph Applegate was fired six years ago for disclosing that the services were paying $1,130 a piece for piston rings that civilian buyers could purchase for as little as $100 each. Explanations are still being sought about...
...take Dilger, a fighter pilot and former dogfight instructor, long to decide that he did not want to replace the GAU8 with some expensive missile. The General Electric cannon performed spectacularly in tests. Over a simulated battlefield in the Nevada desert, his A-10 pilots destroyed 65% of their targeted tanks at a distance of 3,000 ft., and more than 80% at 2,000 ft. The cannon fires off 70 rounds a second. Says Dilger: "We found that the optimal burst to kill a tank was only 35 rounds...