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...Defense Department drill, the operation is the local arm of a mock enactment of what would happen in the event of a conventional war enervation. More than 780 hospitals nationwide are participating in the drill under the Civilian-Military Contingency Hospital System (CMCHS), a plan begun...
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME, the bright red advertisement asks in mock irritation, WHAT A PERSONAL COMPUTER CAN DO? The ad provides not merely an answer, but 100 of them. A personal computer, it says, can send letters at the speed of light, diagnose a sick poodle, custom-tailor an insurance program in minutes, test recipes for beer...
Last week they held a mock funeral for the International Monetary Fund. Sunday, they are staging a production of "Macbeth" to illustrate how Boston public education has ignored high culture...
...Annie that his fellow pilots consider him "a gung-ho type." When Annie breaks into giggles, Glenn turns to her with affection. "Oh, you agree? My own wife? Do you think I'm a Dudley Do-Right?" The pair chuckle softly, but not before Glenn strikes a mock heroic pose and delivers a few self-deprecating lines. Director Philip Kaufman, who also wrote the screenplay, admits that he has no idea if the Senator is capable of laughing at himself, but old newsreel footage of a beaming Glenn convinced him that the astronaut at least must have been "good...
...actions. Under prodding from French President François Mitterrand, Washington said it would help stabilize foreign-exchange markets whenever trading became unusually hectic. Some foreign officials, however, had doubted that the Reagan Administration would honor that agreement. Said French Finance Minister Jacques Delors early last week: "The Americans mock Europe and pursue their policies with insensitivity. They only do what's in their own interest...