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Warns Christopher Foss, British editor of the authoritative Jane's Armour and Artillery 1979-1980: "The armor gap is so great that the West is falling hopelessly behind in getting vehicles into the field." By 1987, the U.S. Army hopes to deploy 7,000 XM1 tanks to counter the threat of the 25,000 T-72s and tens of thousands of other armored vehicles the Soviets will have by that year. But the Pentagon's goals are at the mercy of congressional cutbacks and increased production costs. Meanwhile, the Soviets are developing a brand-new tank...
Alea III Debut Concert--Works of Castiglioni, Antoniou, Schuller, Berio, Lutoslawski, Foss and Varese; B.U. School for the Arts, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston...
...galley and generator, and is built so that an adult can walk upright from driver's seat to back. Some come with multiple color TVs and air conditioners, CB radios, trash compactors, ice makers, built-in vacuum cleaners, music centers and, in the case of Jim and Dee Foss, a Hammond organ...
...hands of Rostropovich, the renaissance flowered. New works were written for him by Benjamin Britten, Lukas Foss, Dmitri Shostakovich, Sergei Prokofiev. In the Soviet Union alone, innumerable compositions were dedicated to him. This burgeoning literature, as well as the example of Rostropovich himself, has encouraged a new generation of fine young cellists, who have moved from deep inside the orchestra to center stage...
...wheels" service, manned by volunteers-mainly from the Red Cross-delivers some 1,000 hot trays a day. If the patient needs help, the volunteer can quickly summon a nurse, social worker or the patient's family physician, who retains overall charge of the case. Says Susan Foss: "Five days a week I await the footsteps of the people from Extramural and their bright faces...