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...Exocet's computer with range and bearing of the target and then, when the plane is between 37 and 43 miles away from its goal, launches the missile and heads for home. The Exocet drops to the surface and skims 8 ft. or so above even the roughest waves at just below the speed of sound. About eight miles from target, the missile's radar takes over and steers it toward the enemy ship...
...allow the actors to set foot on stage, so the pianist played while actors spoke the lines from their seats in the house. There are rough edges in this production, notably the awkward casting of Lars Gunnar-Wigemark as two very different characters in back-to-back scenes, and roughest among them remains the attempt to square things with the present. But the illusion holds, strongly enough so that it would hardly be a surprise if an audience member or two stood up to do his own yelling...
...ABOVE EXCHANGE is purely hypothetical, but it represents in roughest form the core of the Canadian constitutional debate. The possibility that at once embarrasses and frightens most Canadians right now is that the above debate will be played out not in Ottawa, but in London. London, England. Rather than the party led by prime minister Pierre Trudeau battling to a verdict with the party led by Joe Clark, the final decision on the status of a Canadian constitution may come to rest with the followers of Margaret Thatcher and the followers of Michael Foot...
Coach Malavasi survived, barely ("This is the roughest season I've ever been through"), and so did Mrs. Rosenbloom, despite the efforts of the Los Angeles press. The Times assigned two newsmen to poke into her past for a month and reported that she had been married five times before wedding the Rams' owner and that her first marriage had been annulled when she was 15½ years...
...roughest match of the afternoon, Harvard's Howard Verlin held on to down Lowell's Jim Gore. Taller and broader than most 118-pounders, Gore gave away two penalty points and a bloody mouth to scrappy Veroin. A tricky Peterson side roll and two reversals paved the way to a 9-5 win for the Crimson wrestler...