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Mobile missiles are a double-edged sword, however; if they prove reasonably invulnerable for the Americans, they will be equally so for the Russians. Soviet mobile missile technology has progressed even further than its American counterpart, and if the U.S. developed accurate silo-busting missiles, the Soviets would likely respond by putting their land-based missiles on tracks, affording them greater protection. This predictable Soviet response to the MX would seem to negate whatever value it has as a weapon for effective limited counter-force; if the MX is invulnerable, it would be unable to wipe out similarly mobile Soviet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not the Ultimate Missile | 11/4/1977 | See Source »

...fide celebrity in the movie industry, and watching his Rocky Balboa give his best shot at the heavyweight crown makes you wonder if it may also mark his equally sudden return to bona fide oblivion. Stallone is perfectly suited to the title role, but therein lies a double edged sword; try to picture Stallone in anything other than boxer's shorts, and you get the message. But Stallone did capture America's heart for one fleeting moment in motion picture history, and no subsequent bomb can ever take that away from him. While the corny script does wear on your...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: There's A Hitch At Quincy | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

...Joyboys of journalism and lit-crit. More precisely, there are two reputations: the artist and the man. Waugh the writer needs little touching up. Such novels as Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Black Mischief, A Handful of Dust, Scoop and that masterpiece of World War II, the Sword of Honour trilogy, established him as one of the century's finest satirists. The Diaries underscore just how closely Waugh's fiction followed his life, from high jinks at public school to the hallucinations chronicled in The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Establishment of One | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

Open Hoot--Sword-in-the-Stone Coffeehouse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What? Listings Calendar: Oct: 13-Oct. 19 | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

Open Hoot--Sword-in-the-Stone Coffeehouse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What? Listings Calendar: Oct: 13-Oct. 19 | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

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