Word: royalities
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...option would be to continue the Polaris system but build it around modernized warheads and the replacement of aging submarines. That scenario would not be feasible unless Lockheed, Polaris' builder, could be persuaded to keep its production line open to provide the missiles for the new Royal Navy subs. A second alternative is a system of cruise missiles that could be mounted on ships, Hovercraft or trucks. Proponents of this plan estimate that Britain could buy and arm 150 cruise missiles for less than $2 billion. The hitch is that the relatively slow-moving missiles are vulnerable to enemy...
Titus Andronicus (William Hutt), doughtiest general of the Roman state, has come home with his Gothic captives. Turning aside the proffered imperial crown, he bestows it on Saturninus (Jack Wetherall), an odious opportunist though royal in lineage. Titus prefigures Lear's foolish error in dividing up his kingdom...
...promising young men in British science, Snow knew that he lacked the scientist's "singleminded devotion" and that he really wanted to write novels. He published his first, a mystery, in 1932 and continued writing fiction throughout the decade. He also branched into administrative work. The Royal Society asked him to help organize and mobilize scientists for the coming war; when the Ministry of Labor assumed this task. Snow became a civil servant. After World War II he was named a civil service commissioner and charged with evaluating the best and the brightest young graduates applying for admission. Such...
...strong Arab nationalist who was one of King Hussein's closest advisers; of a heart attack; in Amman. A distant cousin of Hussein's, he became Ambassador to Washington and the U.N. after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Following his appointment as chief of the royal Cabinet in 1976 he had been a hard-line advocate of Jordan's close ties to other Arab states and to the Palestinians...
Generation after generation of tennis champions have measured their worth against the memories of Wimbledon. But in all those years Centre Court, with its pampered lawn, its banked grandstand packed with royal patrons and regally sportsmanlike fans, has belonged to Borg as it has to no one else. The sight of him, Wimbledon Cup held aloft in vic tory, has become as much a part of the Fortnight, as the British call the pre mier tournament of tennis, as members taking tea in their rose-covered enclosure, or the hundreds of fans patiently queuing for strawberries and cream beneath green...