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...upset. The company was invited to set up an accounting-machine plant in Bombay in 1951 by Jawaharlal Nehru; he believed India could assert its independence only by building up its own industries, but felt that this could best be accomplished if fledgling Indian firms operated in tandem with foreign companies. Under the leadership of Nehru's daughter Indira Gandhi, the government pushed the notion of industrial nationalism much further. Indian officials assert that India's struggling state-owned Computer Maintenance Corp. could service the IBM equipment in the country without difficulty; after all, that should...
Huber and cohort Lauren Norton started a team two years ago at Concord Academy when women's ice hockey drew little more than snickers and snide remarks. But the impact of Title IX has changed all that--nobody guffawed when the fresh women tandem discussed their plans with Athletic Department officials. Indeed, prior to this year's initiative, plans for the new hockey rink (if and when it is built), included a women's ice hockey locker room...
...pair of seniors, "Sonny" Liston and Leckie, will team brain with brawn as the third defense tandem...
...tackles Tim Ryan (interception) and Ben Kelly, Heimert's henchmen plugged more holes than Prestone, continually frustrating Mather's run-oriented attack. Linebackers Steve Berger, Mark Zbikowski and Gary Barrett, in tandem with defensive back Paul McNicol (fumble recovery) blanketed the secondary as well...
...trouble comes in the form of a beetle-shaped Soviet satellite about 10 ft. long and 3 ft. wide, equipped with very-high-frequency radio antennas and small, square infra-red scanners that work in tandem with radar to direct the killer toward its orbiting prey. The anti-satellite interceptor (ASAT) has a parabolic "dish" antenna that homes in on the target satellite and gets the ASAT - actu ally a space bomb - close to the target, where it detonates. The ASAT goes off like a super hand grenade, spraying the victim satellite with metal-piercing fragments. ASAT's main...