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...battleship Iowa is believed to have made it through World War II and the Korean War without a single officer or crew member being killed in combat. But last week, in one of the worst accidents in recent U.S. military history, an explosion in the second gun turret of the 46-year-old vessel took the lives of 47 young sailors. At week's end investigators were still trying to determine the cause of the blast as the Iowa steamed toward its home port of Norfolk, Va. Defective electrical wiring, a damaged firing mechanism in the ship's gun system...
Dukakis, with his weighty, even slightly oppressive air of self-possession and the small eyes that give his large head a somehow sealed look, like a tank turret even without his famous tank, applauded in an odd slow motion and dipped his left shoulder and gave a slow-motion thumbs-up sign, as if to say, "Way to go, Big Guy!" Then he came forward and started to tell the crowd about John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and about how "we can do better" and how 1960 has rolled round again. History, says Dukakis, repeats itself. And at least some...
...uses videotape of the helmeted Dukakis in the turret of an M-1 tank, a ride the Democrat took last month in an attempt to show toughness on defense issues--but which critics said made him look silly...
...contain himself within the bounds of realism than the director is. Or suitable for representation by realistic means. Tucker was an expressionistic character in search of an auteur. A self-educated backyard inventor, he designed a high-speed armored car that the Army deemed impractical and a gun turret that it learned to love during World War II. Tucker used the prototype of the armored car (according to the film) to make ice-cream runs with his kids. The reputation he gained from the turret was his chief asset in finding backing for the car he decided to make after...
Richardson, of Oakland, Calif., joined the Army in 1968. His specialty is tank turret repairman and he is qualified as an instructor. He is assigned to the 601st Ordnance Battalion, which is based at Aberdeen...