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...Last week, at the Pentagon's invitation, about 40 reporters and photographers joined Defense Secretary Harold Brown on San Clemente Island to watch the submarine U.S.S. Guitarro launch an antiship Tomahawk off the California coast. While Brown, high-ranking Navy officers and their guests peered through binoculars, a sleek, 18-ft. missile burst from beneath the surface of the Pacific, soared up in a bright arc of smoke and flame, and sputtered out. As the missile tumbled down, a parachute popped out, floating it to a gentle splashdown. A few minutes later, the Guitarro sent up a second Tomahawk...
...Southern California's biggest trading companies; he says that he ships back home to Iran 85% of all sunglasses sold in that country-where everyone, it seems, wears sunglasses.) Nonetheless, the new immigrants show a certain style wherever they settle. The Europeans, in particular, tend to have a sleek insouciance that immediately sets them apart on an avenue or in a living room. Their businesses, from boutiques to watering places, are conducted with Continental cachet. While the new Americans often get together for social occasions that may include an afternoon of soccer, an evening of disco dancing...
...Manhattan-bound trains. It is a white, albeit well-tanned crowd: Jamaica Station is the terminal stop for all the trains coming in from the Hamptons and the other smoking-jacket resorts on Long Island, and affluence hangs heavy in the air on a holiday weekend. Young couples, sleek tans glistening under alligator shirts and Gucci shorts, tote their tennis rackets on top of their other luggage; a slightly older woman, just beginning to lose her lifelong war against crow's feet and encroaching fat, coddles a toy poodle who whimpers against the sharp hissing of the monster diesels...
...cruise missile that is capable, in Brown's words, of splitting the center line of a runway 800 miles from its launch site. Brown flew out to New Mexico's Tularosa Basin for a highly publicized demonstration of the U.S. Navy's sleek Tomahawk cruise missile. As big jack rabbits nibbled unconcernedly at the sagebrush in the blazing morning sun, a camouflage-painted, torpedo-shaped object whistled barely 100 ft. above the White Sands Missile Range at 500 m.p.h., headed dead on target. Brown listened to the whine of its turbofan for a few seconds, then...
...face shriveled about her skull; she must have been young; and the snow fell on her eyes; and she would lie unburied until the birds or the dogs cleaned her bones. The dogs were also there along the road, slipping back to their wolf kinship, and they were sleek, well-fed. We stopped to take a picture of dogs digging bodies from sand piles; some were half-eaten, and the dogs had already picked clean one visible skull. Half the villages were deserted; some simply abandoned, others already looted. One saw, as one traveled, people chipping bark from trees, with...