Word: grails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TODAY THE United States is procuring and deploying the hardware--the neutron bomb, cruise missile, B-1 bomber and Pershing II--that will enable it to fight at the intermediate rungs. Most frighteningly, the Reagan Administration is also actively pursuing the Holy Grail of nuclear war-fighting: the capacity to launch a pre-emptive first strike that would destroy the Soviet Union's own second strike capability...
...America's Cup, yachting's great and garish grail, is a tumorous tureen no handsomer than a camel. In 1983 the news was not only that it was lost but that it was losable. A 132-year winning streak, the longest in all sport, was broken over the ample shoulders of San Diego Skipper Dennis Conner, the best and unlikeliest sailor in the world. He means to win it back this week...
COVER: Skipper Dennis Conner presses his crusade to reclaim yachting' s grail...
...some ten pages a day, although with a Wang computer, "the sky's the limit." Before him lies a handful of works in progress. There is the second installment of a five-story science-fantasy cycle, The Dark Tower, featuring Roland, the Last Gunslinger, on the track of his grail. Then there is the uncut version of The Stand. Then there are plans to study French in order to finish Livre Noir, a detective story in French, "the language that turns dirt into romance." And there is a project to turn Carrie into a Broadway musical, with choreography by Debbie...
...years camera manufacturers have pursued an elusive grail: an all- electronic camera that would, like modern video equipment, replace the chemical film of still photography with new forms of image making. In 1981 Japan's Sony Corp. announced a breakthrough with the Mavica, which looked like a conventional 35-mm camera but stored pictures on miniaturized computer floppy disks. Technical snafus, however, kept the product from coming to market...