Word: ericksons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...equipped than a with 2,000 third of chemical the tactical Scud B rocket, The for example, can 170-mile-range infect an area of 750 to 1,000 acres with nerve gas by exploding on ground impact or detonating overhead and releasing a deadly drizzle. According to John Erickson, a widely respected expert on Soviet military matters and director of defense studies at the University of Edinburgh, Kremlin battlefield doctrine calls for using chemicals against the West's command posts and airfields. Gases can blanket a wide area and penetrate buildings and fortifications, killing their occupants even though...
...with Moscow's C.W. threat mounting, the Administration will probably have to start doing more. Advises Edinburgh's Erickson: "Not only must the West develop an offensive capability," but the Kremlin must be convinced that the West "knows how to use these weapons and is well prepared operationally to fire them...
...METER DIVING: 1. Stone (H) 240.90; 2. Holy (H) 226.15; 3. Ratti (B$ 180.90; 100-yd. freestyle: 1. Smith (H) 55.22; 2. Downey (B); 3. McCloskey (H); 200-yd. backstroke: 1. Pride (B) 2:16.30; 2. Derby (B); 3. Erickson (B); 400-yd. individual medley: 1. Davis (H) 4:46.35; 2. Frick (H); 3. Megginson (B); 50-yd. freestyle: 1. Barton (H) 58.32; 2. McCloskey (H); 3. McClellan (B); Three meter diving: 1. Stone (H) 253.85; 2. Holy (H) 213.25; 3. LeVine (B) 170.20; 200-yd. breaststroke: 1. Heggie (B) 2:30.27; 2. Davis (H); 3. Doberneck...
...outwardly gregarious but intensely speculative, ascetic man, Erickson always sets out, as in the Vancouver courthouse, to build imaginatively around the activities of the people who will inhabit the building. Says he: "We must think of our cities as places to live in and enjoy rather than places to work in and get out of." He is a master of scale and placement and insists on a "dialogue between space and setting," in which site determines form. A handsome, blue-eyed bachelor, he is of Swedish-Irish descent, and both dour and mischievous strains can be detected in his designs...
...Erickson has immersed himself in European and Japanese architecture, spending almost half his adult life abroad. He is currently putting up a new building for Saudi Arabia's ministry of foreign affairs and a whole new city in Kuwait, and he hopes to build in China a tourist hotel that will incorporate not merely Western technology but native talents, tastes and materials as well. Indeed, China's drab and joyless metropolitan centers may even be ready for a Great Wall of Erickson...