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...company's output. A wide range of 30,000 other items, including chemicals, flooring and shoe products, is enjoying brisk sales. Goodyear's aviation division is the leading supplier of rubber fuel tanks for aircraft; the company's aerospace division turns out nonmetallic, lightweight armor for helicopter crews in Viet...
...question facing health officials now: how effective will available vaccines be against this year's A2? Flu viruses have the exasperating capability to "drift" each year, changing characteristics to varying degrees and accreting new "armor" against existing vaccines. So far, the virus "drift" does not appear significant. "Present influenza vaccines," says the Communicable Disease Center's Dr. Stephen Schoenbaum, "should afford adequate protection since they contain A-2 strains similar to the ones we have isolated...
...suddenly hit by intense fire. It carried a battalion of Vietnamese Marines and a battalion of the U.S. 9th Infantry, part of a probing arm of Operation Coronado 9. The Vietnamese troops were in the lead boats, and when rockets began to rip through the flotilla's armor plate, Major Pham Nha, the Vietnamese Marine battalion commander, made an instant decision to counterattack. "We're in an ambush and we are going in," ordered Nha, without waiting for artillery and air support. Seconds later, Nha's troop carriers rammed into the canal bank and his Marines stormed...
...pored over medieval manuscripts, and for relaxation visited cathedrals or read their contemporaries: Tennyson, who was writing about the knights of the Round Table, and Ruskin, who was writing about the ancient splendor and modern squalor in architecture. Morris got himself into an echoing rage when a suit of armor he had commissioned from the Oxford blacksmith (the better to pose for a picture) jammed its visor and locked the prophet within...
Speaking at a Harvard Law School Forum on "Abortion: the Issues," Guttmacher said, "Seventy per cent of the illegal abortions in the country are performed by reputable physicians, each thinking himself a knight in white armor...