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That left the public grappling with a question that has been coming up again and again: Why are dangerously deranged people allowed to roam at large? Koch himself expressed the common perplexity. "If someone is irrational, particularly with thoughts of killing expressed," said the mayor, "one would say, as a lay person, that the fact he says the next day 'I'm feeling O.K. now' doesn't necessarily mean...
...presidential commission headed by onetime National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft. At 38,000 lbs., it would be small enough to be hauled around by a trucklike vehicle. The Soviets could never pinpoint its location, and to destroy the entire area over which 500 or so Midgetmen might roam would require launching nearly every warhead at the Kremlin's command. Congress and the Administration embraced Midgetman, and the Air Force produced a design. The fiscal 1987 budget proposes spending $1.4 billion, double this year's figure, for development...
...crowd continued to swell. Every few minutes a car filled with a family would come coughing down the dirt road to the cemetery, preceding a rooster's tail of dust. The women would hug one another, and the men who were not teetotalers would find some reason to roam off together into the woods, returning in a short while flush faced and very happy. The day, a hot late- summer afternoon, just sort of hung still in that stop-time fashion one associates with grandmothers' kitchens--and conversations therein...
...refusals do you know that Judith Singer (Susan Sarandon) is not only a likable woman but a good one. She is very nearly the only lady in her Long Island suburb who has resisted the oleaginous charms of Dr. Bruce Fleckstein, a periodontist whose hands tend to roam from his drill and who has a taste for taking pictures of his female patients that reveal more than the condition of their root canals. Judith even has the sweetly articulated moral fiber to resist the more attractive proposals of the nice police detective (Raul Julia) who is investigating Dr. Bruce...
...sturdy submersible that photographed the Titanic has a legendary forebear: it was named for the ship sailed by the Greek hero Jason as he searched for the Golden Fleece. And roam the Argo does, skimming just above the ocean floor like a giant sled. Designed to map deep-sea hills and gulleys, the craft can descend to depths of 20,000 ft. and remain underwater indefinitely. Essentially, it is a 16-ft.-long cage fashioned to protect a clutch of strobe lights, side-scanning sonar devices and an array of cameras from marine flotsam. The entire contraption is tied umbilically...