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...gambit emerged as the Soviet leadership was setting a deadline for dealing with a major internal issue: the fact that Andropov, 69, has not been seen in public since Aug. 18. Last week, the official news agency TASS announced that the country's rubber-stamp parliament, the Supreme Soviet, would hold its semi-annual meeting on Dec. 28. The Communist Party's Central Committee will probably hold a closed-door session one or two days earlier. Both are gatherings that Andropov would normally chair. Deepening the mystery, the Kremlin disclosed that Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov, 75, would...
Indeed, these kinds of insight can appear unexpectedly, Jackson recalls a recent lecture by a Biology professor who traced the spread of imperialism in South America and Africa in part to the existence of rubber plants that created a need for cheap plantation labor...
...eight-lane structure consists of a rubber surface supported by a rubber waffle understructure, resting on an asphalt base, which experts say gives it enough flexibility to not only increase speed, but also reduce fatigue and decrease the chance of injury. Oommen fine-tuned the compliance of the track, minimalizing the time a runner's foot is in contact with the surface to bring about these benefits...
...small screwdriver used to adjust gyroscopes, General Electric had charged the Navy $780 apiece. New price: $45. For a rubber nose pad on a torpedo, Aerojet-General had charged the Navy $381. New price: $7.50. For a two-foot fiberglass cover for the radarscope of an A-6 bomber, Grumman had charged the Navy $1,800. New price...
...understood that principle when they set sail from Troy, leaving behind only a large wooden horse. Macduff knew it when he disguised his soldiers with branches from Birnam Wood as they marched against Macbeth. In World War II, the Allies created a phantom First U.S. Army Group, outfitted with rubber tanks and canvas landing barges (courtesy of the Shepperton movie studios). Its swirl of fake radio messages about an impending invasion at Calais helped keep the entire German 15th Army pinned down 200 miles east of the actual invasion site on Omaha Beach...