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Attired in a poorly fitting trench coat and bright red sneakers, the glazy-eyed miner presents us with an object for our compassion as well as our amusement; his sphinx-like expression never once breaks into an unprofessional grin, unlike his colleagues in the Monty Python group during some of their other skits...
Public acts fall into several categories: 1) the tragic dullness of missed opportunity-for example, British and German general staffs were mired for years in the Western Front's stalemate of trench warfare; 2) the inconclusive-Wallace Warfield Simpson separated Edward VIII from his crown, but the event belonged more to the history of celebrity than to that of power; 3) magnificent failure-Imre Nagy, for example, in 1956 tried to withdraw Hungary from the Warsaw Pact and then discovered the brutal insistence of things in the Soviet tanks that arrived to iron out his impulse; 4) the satanic...
...whole truth. No matter what one may say against the continual voyeurism of photography, the likelihood is that it played as great a role in finishing the Viet Nam War as the printed word did. (One main reason why civilians in England could tolerate the idea of trench warfare for so long, after 1916. was that they had extremely few photographs of it and so an insufficient sense of outrage...
...firepower than the U.S. for earth moving and other engineering purposes, could be gaining valuable military expertise in the process. Certainly the Soviets have shown interest in harnessing such detonations to a wide range of projects; their known tests have included the excavation of a half-mile-long canal trench in northern Russia in 1971, and the sealing of a gas well in Central Asia five years earlier...
...ride on 12 miles of track buried five feet below the ground in "hardened" tunnels. The missile would be randomly moved around on its tracks and have the capacity to be launched from any point within the tunnel. Since the Soviets would never know what portion of the trench to target, this feature of the MX would insure the ability of a substantial portion of our land-based missiles to weather a Soviet first-strike...