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The same devices that give the Harrier its ability to take off vertically also permit it to outmaneuver conventional aircraft by using a technique known as "viffing" (from Vector in Forward Flight). By adjusting his exhaust nozzles to reverse the thrust, the pilot can cause his plane to decelerate rapidly...
It was not to be. Eight months into Nixon's second term, Kissinger was not only still in harness as National Security Adviser but was appointed to an additional and even more august job: Secretary of State. In the course of the next year, amid what Kissinger describes as "the...
Regan, something of a slow starter, was overshadowed at first by Budget Director David Stockman. That prompted Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston, a longtime friend, to observe: "One day Don Regan is going to wake up and eat David Stockman for breakfast." Regan has not done that, but he has become...
In the first play, Tennessee, by Romulus Linney, a frontier family arrives at its recently-acquired shack ("We're here, ain't we?") and the father, a weatherbeaten, Abe Lincolnish icon of American spirit, makes long, slow speeches about how he "growed up crawlin' on a dirt floor like a...
Riddley mistrusts Goodparley's discovery--all the more when Goodparley lets on that his real goal is to harness the power that caused the great flash. Riddley's grounds for skepticism--expressed most succinctly by a fellow traveller--sound authentic not only in a land of foragers and howling dogs...