Group: sliderule Message: 22671 From: Cthulhu fatagn Date: 09/01/2004
Subject: SR sighting or more accurately Reading
SR sighting or more accurately Reading

Leon Uris' "Armageddon" Dell Paperback 1972 edn. This is a novel about the
Allied Occupation of defeated Germany. At page 492 thereof:-"Practical men
from the Pentagon with slide rules and charts had their turn." The context
was logistics experts estimating how many planeloads of stuff was needed to
keep Berlin alive during the infamous Soviet attempt to starve West Berlin
to death.

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