Word: roughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This Rough Magic, Stewart...
...This Rough Magic, Stewart...
...Street within 24 hours after the polls closed and got ready to lead Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition-a job he says "will be comparatively easy." He added, with a characteristic mixture of éclat and cliché: "I enjoyed being Prime Minister, but one must take the rough with the smooth." Harold Wilson appeared equally determined to enjoy his sojourn as Prime Minister. Despite the narrowness of his victory, Wilson insisted that Labor has a mandate to make "many changes." He added: "We intend to fulfill that mandate, and we are concerned to ensure that there should...
Variable Sweep. The trouble with conventional supersonic jet fighters is that they must sacrifice too much to gain high speed. They cannot carry much load, cruise any great distance, or land slowly on small or rough runways. The F-111 avoids these failings by using variable sweep wings, a difficult design concept that has been tried experimentally but never used in an operational airplane. When the wings are fully extended, they have hardly any sweepback, and the airplane looks oddly oldfashioned. In this condition it will fly with old-fashioned slowness. Then, as speed increases, the wings are swept backward...
...tragedy is assembled and analyzed, adduces no new evidence, proposes no exotic theories. Produced by David Wolper, who in 1963 put together a prizewinning TV documentary (The Making of the President, 1960) about Kennedy's election, Four Days is essentially an extended newsreel, a rough anthology of television tapes, amateur movies and reconstructed scenes. Much of the footage has never been shown before; some of it is striking...