Word: reconnoiterers
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The nine divisions of the 125,000-strong Republican Guard were supposed to be Saddam's strategic reserve, his fearsome ace in the hole, the best-equipped and -trained of his soldiers. If the allies broke through fixed Iraqi defenses and the armored divisions backing them up, the Guard would...
As the allied offensive erupted, TIME's chief of correspondents, John F. Stacks, was back home from Baghdad, and 10 correspondents and nine photographers from the magazine were fully deployed in nine locations across the region. All the correspondents have relied on Almash to assist them with communications problems in...
Quinta seems, from terrestrial observations, a promising target, and getting there is half of Lem's fun. The Eurydice is constructed in orbit around a moon of Saturn; its thermonuclear flowstream engines use hydrogen intake as fuel and can achieve a velocity of 99% the speed of light. While the...
The 2-1 favorite, Demons Begone, came home with a bloody nose and a heavy heart in an ambulance. A field horse, Avies Copy, finished third. The best or the most stubborn of them will reconnoiter next week at the Preakness. Then Belmont Specialist Woody Stephens should have someone fresh...
The auction firms also assiduously cultivate known collectors in the hope that, alive or dead, they will some day assign their possessions to the market: auction executives are among the world's most diligent readers of obituary pages. William Doyle, the ebullient Boston-Irish owner of a seven-year...