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...101st checks out its 18 tanks. They are "Iron Coffins," old M48 Pattons, recently modernized with 105-mm turret guns and twelve-cylinder diesels. Crashing through trees and brush, the 54-tonners seem invulnerable. Tankmen know better; but they think they can shoot faster and straighter than the "Russians." They have set up camp at a tank range, miles of scrub and shrubbery dotted with pop-up silhouette targets that look like Soviet tanks, trucks and armored cars. Staff Sergeant Donald Fogal, 36, tank commander (foreman in an auto parts plant), and his regular gunner, Sergeant Ron Pospisil, 31 (Xerox...
...title-winning Hosmer Chiefs (freshman outfielder Donnie Allard also played) for his swing's improvement. Coach Alex Nahigian said Kelley's weight training on the Nautilus machine provided some needed strength development and helped Kelley "trim down." Though his waistline is under far better control than his turret of red hair, "trim" is not a word many associate with Kelley...
...slow moments in Wiseman's two hours, but that is probably the price for this kind of documentary, which allows people to be themselves. "I wish I was a soldier coming through here in World War II," muses one man, ogling the local girls from his tank turret. "I'll bet they got what they wanted. Probably didn't have to ask for it either." At an early briefing, a commanding officer calmly sends his subordinates off to battle: "That's my last word. Be professional, and let it all hang out." A few days later...
...tourist is prepared for the pyramids or the Parthenon. But the Great Wall of China? More than 2,480 mortised miles of esplanade, built over the bodies of 300,000 serfs and some of the world's ruggedest mountain terrain, to no ultimate military purpose. On a windswept turret of the wall completed in 214 B.C., in a 500-year-old pavilion of the Forbidden City or Soochow's leaning Tiger Hill Pagoda (it has a 3¾° tilt), the visitor is not so much awed as numbed. Who were-and are - the people who could construct...
...Ph.D. in philosophy was once a oneway ticket to an ivy turret. No more. With declining college enrollments, fewer faculty openings, low starting salaries and little chance for tenure, college teaching has lost much of its allure. Even worse, a Mellon Foundation study estimated that by 1990 the U.S. will have a surplus of 60,000 Ph.D.'s in the humanities...