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First, the Reagan program improves the survivability and performance of the warning senors, communication to the command centers, and communications to the strategic forces. It also initiates a research and development program leading to a less vulnerable communication system. I agree that it is desirable to modernize the communication and control system and that it is feasible to provide enhancements. The President is correct in emphasizing the urgency and benefits that are associated with improving the performance of the communications systems, but given the Reagan administration's financial commitment, it remains to be seen how much less vulnerable these systems...
...time in the game--with the exception of the end of the first half of play--was Harvard in command. Consistently, the Crusaders pulled off successful fast breaks and steals, dominated the boards, and also capitalized on Harvard's many turnovers and mental errors...
...Orleans Saints Head Coach Bum Phillips, one of Bear's assistants at A & M, was awed by Bryant's command. "He'd go into a staff meeting," Phillips says, "and he'd never have to say, 'Let me have you-all's attention.' Hell, he had it. You respected him and you liked him. You didn't do it because you were scared of him. Although I was a little scared...
...suite from his full-length ballet Orpheus, based on the Greek myth. And in Barcarola, a darkly impressive work for large orchestra, Henze imaginatively and theatrically depicts the gloomy world of Charon, the ferryman of dead souls across the river Styx. On display in each were Henze's command of orchestration, his sturdy sense of musical architecture and his unerring ear for effective sonorities...
...work with, say the experts, food and affection-heavy on the food, please-will help teach most house cats to forgo clawing the couch and spraying. With the patience usually given only to holy men-plus more food-felines can also be tutored in the arts of sitting on command, lying down and rolling over. Some proud owners have even instructed their cats to eat daintily with their paws directly from the food...