Word: ars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gabriels are mounted on Israel's twelve-ship flotilla of speedy (over 40 knots) French-built missile boats, the last five of which were smuggled out of Cherbourg in December in defiance of France's arms embargo. Each Sa'ar (Hebrew for storm) carries eight Gabriels. According to Pentagon specialists, the missile represents a technological breakthrough and greatly outperforms the Soviet Styx system, which the Egyptian navy used to sink the Israeli destroyer Elath in 1967. Its guidance is self-contained, combining both infra-red (heat-seeking) and radar-homing techniques. The Gabriel hunts down its target...
...work in progress on a film called Speed is of the Essence about amphetamines. The story of how James Kunen got to the Cannes Film Festival via the CRIMSON and Horovitz is simply uncomplicated and improbable. "I was sought after to do movies. I saw Kunen's CRIMSON ar-ticle and got it to an agent to make it into a movie. The movie has little to do with the book. It's much more of an exraction of Kunen as himself as kind of Holden Caulfield, traveling to anarchy in a slow, logical way, It's not a film...
Gilbert Lee Beckley is-or was-a valuable man to the Cosa Nostra. He helped the mob flourish in the green field of betting on college and professional athletics. Handling as much as $250,000 worth of bets daily, Beckley, 58, mastered all the tricks of his ar-can'e trade: wangling information from locker rooms, computing odds in his head, occasionally bribing athletes. Once Beckley was discovered behind a scheme to fix college basketball games by bribing the referees. On another occasion, word flashed along his betting network that bookies need not worry about the outcome...
With the score tied, 19-19, the Bruins'sophomore forward Ar-nie Beerman, who led all scorers with 24 tallies and who controlled both the offensive and defensive boards by snatching 22 rebounds, made two free throws that gave Brown a lead it never lost...