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Colman, on the other hand, intends to hand-pick his replacement. He named as co-candidates Timothy H. Forster '84 and Andrew A. Bernstein '84 Both are qualified by prior experience, having assisted Colman with the large brass instrument. Neither was available for comment yesterday...
...Their band was awesome: it really helped make the fans louder themselves. It was a 70-piece outfit, nothing but brass and drums, and had no trouble getting the crowd pumped up with its rendition of the Budweiser song, with the Badgers' amended ending...
Even more irritating to Pentagon brass," Rickover often assailed the "lack of morality and responsibility among defense contractors," and said the Pentagon did little to combat...
...relatively slow A-10 Thunderbolt is a "close-support" aircraft, intended to swoop in low over a battlefield and savage the enemy's infantry and armor. When the prototype jets started flying in 1975, some Air Force brass were worried that its GAU8 antitank cannon was not up to snuff. The nose-mounted, 30-mm weapon was like a Gatling gun, with seven rotating barrels. And like a Gatling gun, it seemed a little oldfashioned, unworthy of a state-of-the-art Air Force. Colonel Bob Dilger was ordered to Dayton to take over the GAU8 program...
...only March, but already there is a leading candidate for 1983's Six Weeks award: a brass teardrop given to the most maudlin picture of the year. But then, Table for Five perhaps has an unfair advantage. It was written by David Seltzer, who did the script for Six Weeks, and it stars Jon Voight, who loves to cry and apparently wants everyone else to join him in a grand boohoo. He plays a divorced father who takes his three children, after years of neglecting them, on a Mediterranean cruise and, en route, learns that his ex-wife...