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...artificially low initial estimate. Within two years, the projected cost of the total scout program doubled, from $1.3 billion to $2.7 billion, even though the number of aircraft to be bought was reduced from 720 to 578. Part of the problem is that the scout's complex laser sight has run into development problems, and new stabilizing devices may be needed to make it work. What is more, the Army is considering adding sophisticated new missiles. Congress is upset because the price of the "affordable" helicopter has now more than doubled to $4.6 million apiece. But instead of killing...
Many of the county school districts supported an experimental program last year that permitted the busing of 1,000 black students into their schools. As a result, they have mechanisms already in place to execute the new agreement. "It's a damned sight better solution than a mandated plan," says William Bliss, a Pattonville school district board member. The plan is palatable to many because it will involve only student volunteers. It is expected to go into effect for the 1983-84 school year and sets a goal of 25% black enrollment (and a minimum...
...Crimson's biggest win of the day came on the one-meter diving board, as sophomore All-American Dan Watson outbounced everyone in sight on the way to a 474.11 total. Harvard's other flyers, considered the best diving corps in the East, finished disappointingly deep in the pack. Senior Jeff Mule, second on the low board a year ago, finished ninth and junior Karl llig, sixth in 1982, placed 10th...
...film opens to the familiar beat of new wave pop and the sight (Yawn) of black vinyl spinning on a record player. But look again. What appears to be a spinning record is actually the perfect curve of a racetrack, filmed from far above, the spinning effect achieved by race cars circling in parallel formation. This cinematographic sleight-of-hand is just the first drop in a cascade of sensory jokes and puns that keep this sophisticated bit of flotsam bubbling along. The viewer can't help but go happily with the flow...
...year in Korea and no end in sight. Last week we suffered a visitation by some brigadier general who tried to boost morale by telling us that we are bringing democracy to this green and peasant land. That was the most ridiculous thing I ever heard. I felt like telling His Belligerence that what this country needs is a good five-cent czar. My tentmate, Major Frank Burns, is even more amusing, if you get your laughs from psychotic paranoia complicated by a spine-wide streak of yellow. He thinks we're here to save Korea from the Koreans...