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...Morgan? Why not Carnegie or Rockefeller? Why not Svensen or Von Humboldt or Verrazanno or Sun Yatsen? Well, Morgan explains, he threw away his first name, Sanche-a contraction of St. Charles -and scrambled the letters of De Gramont. Among the anagrams that resulted were Dr. Montage, R.D. Megaton and Ted Morgan. Morgan, he felt, was someone you would lend your car to. Dogs and small children would like...
...missile's Mk-12 warhead will be replaced with the Mk-12A. Using miniaturized arming and fusing components, the new warhead will be able to contain enough payload to double its explosive yield from 170 kilotons to 350 kilotons of TNT. This is still far below the 1 megaton (1,000 kilotons) clout of each of the eight warheads carried in the huge SS-18 that the Soviet Union is already deploying. But, with the improved guidance system, the Mk-12A will be much more accurate than an SS-18 warhead, and as a result will have...
...could easily pass for what he once was: a full-time schoolteacher. He wears thick glasses and is virtually blind in one eye; his face droops in a hangdog expression, and a habitual slouch seems to shrink his 6-ft. 3-in. frame. What places Shanker in the megaton range is the power he wields...
...agree on the method by which the number of MIRVs will be calculated. The nub of the problem is Moscow's new SS-18 monster missile. More than six times as powerful as the U.S. Minuteman III, the SS-18 can carry a single warhead delivering a 50-megaton explosive punch (creating a fireball 36 miles in diameter and blasting a 300-ft.-deep hole in granite), or it can be fitted with up to eight MIRVs...
EQUUS. The bizarre saga of a boy who blinds six horses with a metal spike. Galvanically theatrical, albeit specious in substance. The boy (Peter Firth) and his psychiatrist (Anthony Hopkins) give performances in the megaton range...