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...gross was $40,000. They do not speak of net-out of fear, one suspects, of nervous col lapse. Everywhere about the place is evidence of awfully hard work, the kind of work that makes a man dream that his right hand has turned into a power drill, that makes a woman dream that brass will never tarnish, never again. Tough labor, requiring a backbone tough as hickory. (At the risk of irrelevancy, it comes to mind that Calvin Coolidge, a Vermonter, was presented with a walking cane by Vermonters when he became President...
...practical and neat. The latest Army fatigues appear to be neither. The half-nylon, half-cotton outfit, with its amoebic pattern of green, brown, tan and black, is unacceptably hot, even in temperate climates. It was designed to be an "all-service, all-purpose" uniform, but clerks, mechanics and drill sergeants alike bemoan its uncomfortable cut and slovenly look. It was supposed to be the pride of the Pentagon, but the battle dress uniform (B.D.U.) has been rapidly unraveling as a dud. Or so suggests an internal Army cable...
...showdown in Tripoli was played out against a backdrop of rising tensions. Two U.S. aircraft carriers, the Independence and the Kennedy, joined the Eisenhower off the coast of Lebanon last week. Israel, meanwhile, announced a mobilization drill of its reservists; the last time a public call to duty occurred was in 1978. Both countries described their actions as routine, but the activity fed speculation about possible retaliation for the suicidal attacks against the U.S. Marine compound in Beirut* and an Israeli military base in Tyre. In response, Syrian President Hafez Assad placed his country's armed forces on alert...
...tons of fish, destroyed an unknown quantity of aquatic plant life on which fish thrive, and forced officials to cut off water temporarily to numerous communities that depend on the Dniester, including the major cities of Odessa and Kishinev. To make up for the lost water, officials scurried to drill wells and divert streams and lakes...
Have you ever sat in the outer office amid the grossly outdated copies of People, Architectural Digest and the Harvard Alumni Magazine? Have you ever nervously fidgeted there listening to the whirling drill just a pressboard wall away? Have you ever taken long, deep breaths to fight off panic while anticipating future pain in the dentist's chair? I have. We all have. It is that terrifying fear of anticipated horror that impels me to write...