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Lefkowitz suddenly stood up, pulled his violin out of his case, and stood poised before his music. "I've got to practice," he said. "I don't fool myself into thinking everything's going to come quickly. Overnight, From now on I'll be great. I have to work towards it." I left him to his practising and in the hall bumped into a member of the Music Department. "You were in there with Ronan Lefkowitz!" he gushed. "Ah, When Ronan first arrived here he was a good fiddler. There was promise glaring through every note he played...
ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES (ECM): Although the electronic "bubbles" that surrounded U.S. bombers and fighter-bombers over North Viet Nam gave them a high degree of protection against missiles and antiaircraft fire, the Soviets may learn to pierce the bubbles. The U.S. answer: new ECM techniques that can fool enemy radar into "seeing" a plane in the sky some distance away from where it actually is. Still largely cloaked in secrecy, the technology depends on mimicry and deception. Once a plane's instruments sense that radar signals are bouncing off it, they identify the type of pulses, memorize them and then...
...rolling in the aisles, though it probably wasn't Jonson's intention to get that sort of response--he wanted to instruct as well as amuse. He placed himself squarely in the center of his society, defending true values against all comers front all directions--Puritan and libertine, meek fool and overbearing lout. He played the down-to-earth Aristotle to Shakespeare's Plato, attacking anyone who deviated from his golden mean. This kind of stance can reduce the energy level of a work of art--how vituperative can you be when you're defending moderation?--but Jonson surmounted this...
...more running and then, after lunch, weight lifting. Lack of snow is no obstacle: training includes 15-mile slogs on roller skis-3-ft. skis with roller-skate wheels. If anyone slacks off, Coach Marty Hall drops him or her from the program. "We're not here to fool around," says Hall. That may be a promise of things to come at the Olympics next year...
...ENERGY. We're still living in a fool's paradise in this country. We have always thought that we could have an endless supply of cheap energy and we can't. We've got a major energy problem, but the American people don't believe it. We waste so much. We waste everything in this country...