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...reception from the Senate Armed Services Committee. Most of the Senators reaffirmed their support of the MX but badgered the Pentagon witnesses about all of the zigzags on basing the missile. Scolded Washington Democrat Henry Jackson: "The public's got the idea that this is a boondoggle, a Rube Goldberg." Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, one of the Senate's most influential defense experts, warned: "I don't think you realize the trouble the MX basing model...
...years, viewers of the TV evening news have been treated to animated illustrations of ways that the Soviets might be able to destroy the MX in its various Rube Goldberg basing schemes, including this latest one. Designers of the various plans have responded that the Soviets could not be sure of knocking out all of the MXs. Therefore the existence of the MX would introduce a cautionary, salutary factor of uncertainty into Soviet calculations. Maybe so. But the same argument can be turned around. There is always some doubt about any new weapons system, especially a nuclear one that cannot...
...Rosalynn having in the White House an extraordinarily comprehensive series of public events and entertainment. Yet the press sometimes criticized her. If we had Horowitz, Baryshnikov, Beverly Sills and also had Willie Nelson, Rosalynn was stigmatized as some sort of rube who did not really understand the glarn-our of Washington. That aggravated me worse than anything...
...Uncle Scrooge." It was collectors who first discovered Barks himself. The artist's narrative skills would have made him a stand out, but the detail of his drawing was what elevated him to the status of pop father figure. All his early jobs gave him a Rube Goldbergian fascination with mechanical comedy; his plots were researched the way a schoolboy would do a term paper-by turning to the National Geographic and Scientific American. "If you're going to be in the Andes, it had to look like the Andes," he insists. "Some of those other artists...
...Curt Flood, 2. Nolan Ryan, Sandy Koufax, Rube Waddell. Bob Feller. Sam McDowell, Walter Johnson, Steve Carlton, Mickey Lolich. Vida Blue and J R Richard Waddell was the first to fan more than 300, doing it in 1903. 3. Gary Templetion in 1919. 4. a) Carl Mays 1920, b) Gill McDongald, c) Earl Averill. 5. California Angels: Reggie Jackdon, Fred Lynn, Don Baylor and Rod Carew, Kansas City Royals: Vida Blue, George Brett, Boston Red Sox: Carl Yazstremski, Jim Rice, Philadelphia Phillies: Pete Rose, Mike Sehmidt, Pittsburgh Pirates: Dave Parker, Willie Stargell, 6. Juan Marichal won 26 games...