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This inability to move troops has been developing for a decade, mostly because the Air Force and Navy have given transport a low priority; neither service can summon much enthusiasm for providing a taxi service for the Army and Marines. The number of planes available to fly troops and equipment dropped by 258, nearly a quarter of the force, during the 1970s. The Military Air Transport Command had all it could do last fall to fly a mere 1,400 soldiers to Egypt for a training exercise, Operation Bright Star. The number of cargo ships fell by 297, nearly half...
...Americans would just plant flowers in them. In the Longford, ordinary Los Angeles water flows from the mouths of dolphin-shaped taps that are plated with 24-karat gold. Other homey touches: large foyers for art treasures, crystal chandeliers and private screening rooms-and owners will be able to summon, with the press of a button, pet walkers, masseuses, engineers and secretaries. The 31-story L'Evian devotes an entire floor to 21 apartments for maids. For those who want to get out of the house, there is an elegant private club, the Regency, just down the street...
...Yorkers, like Bosco and myself, prefer direct emotions and uncomplicated thoughts. And that's why Escape From New York is so egreiously bad. Director John Carpenter has tried to summon all the malevolence of the nation's biggest city--and there is plenty there--and speed it up to a time when all of the city's other qualities have moved to the Sunbelt. In 1997 all that is left is the Evil...
...Vienna, Ga., or Venice, Calif., a gram of coke was about as hard to find as a six-pack of Bud. Whether in a suburban high school outside Los Angeles, on Wall Street or Madison Avenue or in the interstices of ostensibly "straight" Middle America, $100 will rapidly summon up a gram of what goes for cocaine...
Jungreis, 45, bills herself as "the Rebbetzin" (Rabbi's Wife) or "the Jewish Soul on Fire." Others call her "the Jewish Billy Graham," but unlike the Baptist evangelist, she does not seek converts from other religions. Her sole mission is to lure, cajole or otherwise summon secularized Jews back to their faith...