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...justified in firing the first shots? No question about it, say former Navy pilots and other experts familiar with the F-14 Tomcat. "I know it sounds strange to the layman to say, 'He pointed his nose at me five times so I shot him,' " conceded a jet-fighter technician. "But it makes sense in aerial combat. Furthermore, if some guy aims a gun at you in a dark alley, you don't ask him whether it's loaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Knife Fighting in the Air | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...small misstep for a technician and an expensive setback for the next mission of the space shuttle Discovery. Last week a hapless worker, whose name has been withheld to protect him from humiliation, tripped on the tail of his lab coat and piled into the exhaust nozzle of a space rocket that is to ferry an important communications satellite into orbit next February. The accident caused a crack in the heat-resistant carbon nozzle that was too serious to be fixed with a simple patch, and NASA will have to replace the entire first stage of the expensive rocket. Total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The $6 Million Stumble | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...mall; I wondered what The Suburban News wrote about. The boyfriend finally gave me the hot tip for the evening, and ten minutes later I was cruising the aisles in the Atlantic Supermarket. At the pamphlet rack I thumbed through leaf-lets on how to be a computer technician, how to raise birds and why Roger Staubach buys National Home insurance. I read through "Suburban Help Wanted" (Vol. XI, published in Burlington, MA). I browsed the bulletin board ads and even considered calling the Reading Barbershop Quartet and asking them to sing to me over the phone. I finally lost...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Post-Election Escapism | 11/22/1988 | See Source »

...have to delegate more authority in a Mainstage production," Dopico says. "In a house production you may be responsible for getting the props and building the set yourself. In a Mainstage you have someone in charge of getting props, a master technician, and a master carpenter...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: The Musical Makes a Comeback | 11/18/1988 | See Source »

Harvard Coach Joe Restic's Multiflex offense requires both a master technician, and a master athlete. A master technician, someone who knows the offense inside and out, someone who can change a play at the line of scrimmage after seeing a subtle shift in the defensive secondary, cannot be trained in a week, the amount of time Perry had to work with the Multiflex. Saturday, Perry was most successful on broken plays. He set up Harvard's first touchdown with a 17-yd. scramble...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: All in All, They'd Rather Be Elsewhere | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

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