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...third stage; the Italians, 9.78% and the payload; the Belgians 2.85% and the downrange guidance station; the Dutch, 2.64% and the telemetry, and Australia makes available the Woomera range. The three stages have yet to be launched together, and the test vehicle now standing on a pad at Woomera carries dummy second and third stages...
...advertise locked the cape in clouds and rain. When the skies finally cleared, low pressure readings from a small nitrogen sphere that operates fuel valves delayed the lift-off for 31 hours; at one point, NASA control in Houston decided to scrub the mission, but technicians on the pad convinced Launch Director Kurt Debus that the pressure-though low-was sufficient to complete the mission. The rest was something for rocketeers to cheer about and a new eyeful for the millions who watched on television...
...dying last November, Kuwait's Emir Abdullah as Salem as Sabah scrawled a final command on a writing pad: "Carry on in the most enlightened way." And indeed, his brother and successor, Sabah as Salem as Sabah, 51, has been behaving most luminously. First he ordered a $140 bonus for all government employees in the rich little oil kingdom-a token that set the royal treasury back by $13 million. Then he decided his own pay was a bit much, had the National Assembly cut his salary from $28 million to $22.4 million per annum, with the difference...
With five minutes remaining in the game, Dennis McCullough threaded the needle between three Huskies with a pass that hit Kent Parrot racing across the blue line. Parrot wasted no time stickhandling and fired from the edge of the face-off circle. The bullet glanced off Thornton's pad into the net for the wrap-up tally...
DARLING. This jet-set satire with trimmings of pathos is tailor-made for Julie Christie's stylish performance as the amoral jade who sleeps her way from pad to palazzo...