Word: royals
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Considering the Cyclopean onslaught of photographers the royal family must endure, it is rather a quaint sight to catch them squinting into the lens themselves. Like a good sportsman's wife, Queen Elizabeth II, 56, was front and center to watch Prince Philip, 60, in the three-day Royal Windsor Horse Show's carriage-driving contest. The prince, who started racing coaches at 50 after he gave up polo, has been a runner-up four times in the past, but this year he reined supreme. Presented the first-place trophy by his No. 1 fan, Philip smiled...
...reconnaissance planes to the South Atlantic. Nimrods, the British version of the AWACS, can give British ships warning of enemy aircraft well before they come within striking distance. In addition, the British government announced that four more frigates would join the Falklands fleet. One other possibility: the ferrying of Royal Air Force Phantom interceptors to the South Atlantic for combat runs, using airborne tankers for refueling, as the British did with their Vulcan bombing runs...
...British used another combat-untested weapon to sink one Argentine patrol boat last week and damage another. Lynx helicopters operating from one of the task force's destroyers or frigates fired British-built Sea Skua missiles, air-to-ship weapons that have been deployed by the Royal Navy for less than a year. Many details of the Sea Skua remain secret, but it is a sausage-shaped device, 8 ft. long and weighing about...
...British point out that they were lucky. They benefited from a contingency plan, formulated in 1978 by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, for the speedy commandeering of 300 specific merchant ships from member nations in time of emergency. The British were even luckier that a substantial portion of the Royal Navy was participating in NATO exercises off Gibraltar at the time of the Argentine invasion of the Falklands. This meant that a number of vessels, almost certainly including a nuclear submarine, were stocked, manned and ready to sail. It also meant that some of the ships were already as much...
Unlike the old rich, Florida's nouveaux have no time for gardening. There are service companies to zap the crabgrass and prune the azaleas. In fact, most new Boca abodes come with preplanted gardens. One developer installed 350 royal palms on his plots. Other services take care of pools and window-washing. There are almost no live-in servants in any of the houses. Even $2 million "cottages" are as nearly maintenance-free as possible. Most new arrivals expect to walk into a readymade environment, with none of the bother of planning or decorating. Some builders, like Stephen Chefan...