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...almost $1 billion to his budget so the Army could buy 1,289 over the next two years. (Estimated cost of the best Soviet tanks, the T-64 and T72: $700,000 each.) The M1's advanced turbine engine gulps fuel at the staggering rate of 3 gal. per mile. Its armor (60.3 tons) makes it so bulky that it cannot be carried aboard any cargo plane except the Galaxy, the biggest thing on wings. Even a Galaxy can haul only one Abrams. Result: the M-l can be used only in areas to which it can be sent leisurely...
Barry Goldwater, 73, Arizona Senator, at a Washington sports exhibit: "I've played everything-baseball, football, basketball. I still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk...
Principally, they stem from what New Rightists call her "drastic amending" of a bill that would have banned adult bookstores within a one-mile radius of schools and parks. O'Connor altered the restriction to 4,000 feet, but she clearly had no desire to corrupt youth. One possible motive: getting state law to conform with federal statutes, thus reducing the possibility of court challenges...
...flight was one more coup for Challenger's designer, Paul MacCready, 55, of Pasadena, Calif. Four years ago, the innovative aeronautical engineer achieved an aviation milestone when another of his diaphanous, lightweight craft, the Gossamer Condor, became the first plane to complete a 1.15-mile, figure-eight course on human power alone (generated by a bicycle-like set of pedals). Two years later MacCready's Gossamer Albatross made the first such muscle-powered crossing over the English Channel...
...bravura effort by the U.S. to demonstrate safety. "Cancer rates among the exposed men have been far above the statistical norm, yet the afflicted soldiers have found it impossible to obtain government compensation. The same situation is likely to hold true for the eventual victims of the Three Mile Island incident and other accidents...