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Indirectly, Nixon's irrational (or perhaps it is one of his more rationally based fears) hatred of the press has also created an umbrella under which others securely wreck the Gazetteers...
...Arab society, go back to the 18th century, when Hebrew and Arabic were valued for their relevance to biblical and archaeological studies. They have thrived in recent years with funds from the post-Sputnik National Defense Education Act, the Ford Foundation and oil companies. Today leading centers-generally umbrella departments coordinating language, history, cultural and political studies-are at Princeton, U.C.L.A., Columbia, Chicago, Berkeley, Harvard and Michigan...
...Suez Canal demonstrated that these missiles can also play an offensive role, enabling an attacking force to establish and hold a beachhead. With the extremely mobile SA-6, beachheads can be expanded by slowly moving the missiles forward, thus increasing the area protected from aerial assault by their umbrella...
Though they have been in business only three years, Deaver Brown and Alexandre Goodwin, both 29, have grossed $6,100,000 so far in 1973, mostly from sales of their Umbroller. It is a clever little baby stroller that folds to resemble an umbrella on wheels. Already some 750,000 have been sold, and business is good enough that last week the entrepreneurs reduced the price from...
...slim (6-in. diameter), 19-ft.-long solid-fuel rocket mounted in a group of three on a tracked vehicle. Thus, unlike the older SAM-2 and SAM3 missiles, which require a permanent base, the new SAM can be moved along with armored forces, providing them with an umbrella of protection that extends from treetop level to an altitude of 35,000 ft. Furthermore, while the Israelis (with U.S. equipment and advice) know how to evade or neutralize the SAM-2 and SAM-3, they so far have no effective countermeasures against the triple-threat SAM-6. Each...