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...years, weapons makers have often charged the Navy-and the Army and the Air Force-exorbitant prices for even the simplest of spare parts. But goaded by horror stories in the press, the military has begun to crack down. The latest list of examples was announced last week by Secretary of the Navy John Lehman...
Eventually, Helen's fairy-tale life at the chateau begins to crumble. The simplest questions and gestures become threats as Helene has no way of knowing whether they are motivated by affection or by suspicious throughout the film we see the pressure gradually build up. At the first dinner with in-laws, she trips up on questions about vineyard:-- that she studied in California with her late husband--about his work, about how they met. "I was staring down into the Grand Canyon when he touched me on the shoulder." She stammers trying to recall what Patricia had said...
Under the proposal, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. would have to reduce their overall nuclear arsenals by 45% by 1996. The key to the plan is a new unit of destructive power called Standard Weapons Station (SWS), which was developed by retired Air Force Lieut. General Glenn Kent. In its simplest form, an SWS represents a warhead atop a ballistic missile, a bomb on a plane, a self-propelled cruise missile. Kent's plan includes complex formulas so that oversize warheads count extra. So do multiple warheads that are clustered on top of missiles with particularly powerful lifting capability, known...
...event so much more enormous that, relative to it, the war itself shrank to minor significance. In what they said and did, men were still, as in the aftershock of a great wound, bemused and only semi-articulate, whether they were soldiers or scientists, or great statesmen, or the simplest of men. But in the dark depths of their minds and hearts, huge forms moved and silently arrayed themselves: Titans, arranging out of the chaos an age in which victory was already only the shout of a child in the street...
When the bomb split open the universe and revealed the prospect of the infinitely extraordinary, it also revealed the oldest, simplest, commonest, most neglected and most important of facts: that each man is eternally and above all else responsible for his own soul...