Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chic. The jumpsuit, like most of the clothes in Russell's movies, was designed by his wife Shirley. She also collects thrift-shop gear, and Russell pictures are immediately recognizable by their raffish, démodé chic. Aesthetics aside, this practice also keeps down wardrobe costs. "I'd heard Russell was difficult to work with, went over the budget, that kind of thing," says Producer Stigwood, "but it isn't true." Tommy's budget of $3.5 million was probably more money than Russell had seen in some time. His last movies, The Boy Friend...
...ground, 50 paratroopers in battle gear, who had been unloaded earlier from eight Alouette helicopters, took up positions around the barracks, at neighboring apartment buildings and along the highway. As two helicopter gunships whirled overhead loosing random bursts of fire, the paratroopers advanced, after a fashion, on the barracks. The Shootout lasted scarcely an hour. One infantryman was killed, and 18 were wounded...
...somewhere along the line a gear slipped, or something failed to connect. This year some of the people who run the Model United Nations are in trouble because in the course of running the conferences some distinctions, subtle but important ones, somehow became blurred for them, and although they were very busy and under a great deal of pressure, they did some things they shouldn't have done. The small-town kids running a big-time show spent more than $5000 in four days in December, during the high school Model U.N., on expenses for their Harvard undergraduate staff...
Making use of everything from steadily shrinking microcircuitry to high-speed computers and high-energy laser beams, the three U.S. military services this fiscal year are pouring at least $500 million into research and development of new electronic snooping and jamming gear. That bill reflects not a penny of the price paid for R. and D. in the electronics of some new offensive weapons so costly that the military can barely afford to test-fire* them...
...equipped with monstrous, mushroom-shaped radar domes for the Air Force's new airborne warning and control system (AWACS). Literally a command post in the sky, each plane will cost $111 million-the most expensive plane ever built by the Air Force. Packed with computers, radars and jamming gear, the AW ACS will be able to spot far-off targets, including very low-flying planes, and feed instructions to wide-ranging U.S. combat aircraft. Over the English Channel recently, a prototype plane was able to direct an entire simulated NATO battlefront, even while it was keeping...