JavaFX 26 Today

‘Last week a new word entered the political lexicon: Majorism. Roll it around in your mouth for a while. Get used to it. For the folks from Conservative Central Office have apparently decided that this is to be the buzz word for the long summer campaign. Majorism. Majorism. Majorism.

Dr. J. Howard Dellinger, Chief of the Central Radio Propagation Laboratory of the National Bureau of Standards, retired on April 30, after forty years of government service.

Military historians will probably say the fighting along Saudi Arabia’s northern border last week was only an early skirmish in the great gulf war of 1991 – but it was real enough, and surely frightening enough, to all those who fought in it (‘In the Heat of Battle’, Newsweek, 11 Feb 91).