Word: vans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...record -- a nonstop list of speakers, including SDI Director Lieut. General James Abrahamson of the Air Force, Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, and Paul Nitze, the Administration's special adviser on arms control. Prominent scientific and strategic critics of the concept spoke as well. As Pentagon Correspondent Bruce van Voorst, who was instrumental in planning the gathering, noted, "Our object was to put technology in balance with politics. By lunch everyone was talking of radio-frequency quadrapoles and optical phase conjugation...
...remember waiting on the curve of the street for the moving van with the piano for eight hours. I sat outside until the sun went down...It was the greatest gift...
Before the Campaign, when the Fund cost only $900,000 to run, it only raised $7 million. Now the Fund has set "a realistic and ambitious goal" of $17.3 million in the first major drive after the five-year Campaign, says Henry G. Van der Eb '42, Fund chairman. The Fund has so far raked in $16.5 million toward its goal...
...Molly's white BMW jackrabbits through the midday traffic as she drives from home to drop by her dad's luncheonette in Van Nuys. Bob's Snack Bar: "Where the Elite Meet to Eat." Ringwald, a burly, gray-bearded man, has been blind since he was ten; he took over the restaurant last year under a Government program to teach retail-management skills to the handicapped. Most days he is up at 5 and works in the shop until late afternoon. When Molly greets him, he stage-whispers, "I can't have you coming in like this. All my customers...
Comparing Shcharansky to "Rip Van Winkle" after his nine-year imprisonment, Dershowitz said the dissident did not fully understand the implications of Soviet divestment and that his message should be regarded as a "general moral suggestion" rather than a specific tactical recommendation...