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Indeed, according to military reformers, the Navy's plans play directly into a Soviet sea-warfare strategy that is designed specifically to sink big new carriers. Admiral Sergei Gorshkov, commander of the Soviet navy, has written that "a single submarine is capable of destroying a major surface ship with a salvo of cruise missiles." And the Soviets' "Oscar"-class submarines, put into service last year, can dive deeper and swim faster than anything the U.S. has produced...
...play was first produced in New York in 1960 when British Playwright Delaney was 21. Then, the play seemed to belong to the "kitchen sink" school of regurgitative grievances-today, it celebrates spunk. This revival, which off-Broadway's Roundabout Theater has transferred intact to Broadway's Century Theater, is taut, vital, moving and funny. An admirable cast threads reality through the needle's eye of truth...
...many things, a virility substitute. Its mere possession imparts status-cocaine equals money, and money equals power. And, as if in mute imitation of its symbolism, cocaine's presence in the blood, like no other drug, accounts for a feeling of confidence that is rare in the behavioral sink of post-industrial America...
...Sometimes while working on it, I've had the feeling it's going to sink into the ground." Construction of the building will begin this summer. When it opens in 1983 it will house galleries and offices for the Fogg's departments of ancient, Oriental, and Near Eastern art, as well as a 300-seat lecture hall in the basement...
...University has said several times since that it will not suffer if the new law is passed by the council. "We have always abided by zoning regulations." Robin Schmidt, Harvard's vicepresident for government and community relations, said last year. But the message may have begun to sink in that the city aims to do more than merely include Harvard in its zoning, that instead it hopes to all but end the University's growth, Schmidt's assistant, Louis Armistead, said two weeks ago that Harvard would present a list of objections in written form to the council and planning...