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...Walkers might have given the Soviets. So far, the best guess is that most of the information dealt with codes and, more important, with the way the U.S. keeps track of Soviet ships and submarines. U.S. and Soviet subs, armed with nuclear missiles, play a constant game of undersea hide-and-seek. If one side were to learn precisely how the other tracks the enemy, it might be able to develop techniques for avoiding detection. Simply knowing what details the U.S. had about how to locate Soviet submarines, which is apparently part of what the Walkers provided for a decade...
...year was 1962. America was weathering its worst session since the Great Depression. Unemployment soared; interest rates fluctuated in the high double digits. The beleagured construction industry mailed piles of useless lumber to Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington, and Capitol Hill clamored for the Fed chief's hide...
...make their measurements, the astronomers used radio telescopes, which can peer through the clouds of interstellar dust that hide the galactic center from the glassy-eyed view of optical telescopes. Still, the enigmatic source of radiation was an enormous distance away -- 30,000 light-years, or 180 quadrillion miles. The only way to discern its size and shape accurately was to employ a technique called VLBI (very long baseline interferometry). In 1983 the astronomers observed Sgr A* with six giant dish-shaped radio telescopes, one each in Massachusetts, West Virginia and Texas, and three in California. "In effect, the configuration...
Esteban's efforts to please Clara prove disastrous. After their wedding he can think of nothing better to present to his bride than the hide of her beloved dead dog Barrabas, turned into a rug and laid out at the foot of the marriage bed. "His two glass eyes stared up at her with the helpless look that is the specialty of taxidermists." Esteban's insensitiveness toward his wife extends beyond the grave. When Clara dies, the inconsolable widower begins wearing a suede pouch hanging under his shirt. "In it were his wife's false teeth, which he treated...
Weinberger did not hide his chagrin. "Nobody wanted to make these cuts," he said. "The President didn't, and I certainly didn't." Though the Pentagon does not yet know what it will do without, the vote seems sure to slow the U.S. military buildup that was one of Reagan's proudest accomplishments throughout his first term...