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...this was nothing new for Secord. In his three decades of military service, he was involved in clandestine operations wherever things were hottest around the world. After seeing action as a fighter pilot in Viet Nam, he was attached to a CIA force in Thailand to supervise flights for the agency's secret Laotian war. In 1975 he was stationed as a military attache in Iran and helped guide the Shah in spending billions of dollars on a 500-plane air force. In Tehran, he met his future partner Albert Hakim, who was then engineering the sale of sophisticated electronic...
...Zandt had helped produce three of Springsteen's hottest-selling albums. Tunes he wrote for the Jukes and Gary "U.S." Bonds, like Daddy's Come Home, showed high-end gifts for songwriting, even though he insists, "I hate all ballads, including my own." Still, it was impossible to flourish on his own and hang in with the gang. "I felt," he says, "a more urgent necessity pulling me. Like, 'Hey, it's time to find out if you got something else to contribute here on this planet.' " Men Without Women, his first Little Steven album, released...
...Tokyo took a look at the substance. Says Muller: "The Japanese weren't smiling, and they confirmed it. Then the United States sat up." By the end of the year, confirmation had come from China and the U.S., and suddenly a nearly moribund branch of physics was the hottest thing around. Large industrial and government laboratories jumped in; so did major universities. At Bell Labs, a team led by Bertram Batlogg and Ceramist Cava had launched their own program of alchemical tinkering. Soon they had manufactured a similar compound that became a superconductor at 38 K, one- upping their archrivals...
Wesley-Jessen expects the lenses to bring in revenues exceeding $50 million in their first year. That could make them the hottest new eye product since soft lenses were introduced in 1971. Nonetheless, the colored variety is only a mote by comparison with overall retail sales of contact lenses, which totaled $1.3 billion last year...
Their latest album just hit No. 1, their concert tour is the hottest since Springsteen' s, but U2' s blitz has an impact all its own. They have "great songs and great heart," and more: these four musicians from Ireland also draw crowds with their lyrical insistence that rock and social commitment are inseparable. As one of their songs puts it, there are "new dreams tonight." See MUSIC...