Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...musical scores and papers-were donated to the film archives of the University of California at Los Angeles. The presentation at U.C.L.A. looked like lunchtime at the studio commissary 40 years ago. On hand were Fred, 83, and Ginger, 70, Dee and husband, Joel McCrea, 76, Jane Russell, 61, Sam Jaffe, 91, Ralph Bellamy, 78, Rhonda Fleming, 58, Rudy Vallee, 80, Harriet Nelson, 67, Laraine Day, 61, and Jane Wyatt, 69. Another famous former RKO star couldn't make it but sent his best. He starred in Cattle Queen of Montana in 1954 and Tennessee's Partner...
...said around golf that anyone who intends to win the Open is advised to do so early on. The very first tour victories of Nicklaus and Lee Trevino were Opens; Sam Snead never did win one. "I can't make it happen," Watson eventually concluded, after painful failures. "I have to let it happen." When it did, the release it brought him was something to see. "If you're there by quirk or luck," Watson says, "you're not nervous the same way you are when you are playing well and know you can win. Then...
...staff writer. And their older brother? Who else? Lenny, the conductor, lecturer, composer and 63-year-old Wunderkind. Family Matters follows all the Bernsteins from obscurity to celebrity, traveling the pull of Lenny's powerful slipstream. As Burton tells it, the early conditions were not propitious for fame. Sam, the father, was a successful businessman, a manic-depressive and a parochial ethnocentric (in later years he would refer to Dwight Eisenhower as General Eisenberg and to Adlai Stevenson as Steve Adelson). He did not regard music as an occupation for a nice Jewish boy, and along...
...ground missiles are also formidable examples of Star Wars electronics. The U.S.-built Shrike missiles are designed specifically to knock out ground-based antiaircraft batteries such as the SA-6s. From as far away as 25 miles, the Shrikes' radar-seeking device can be tuned precisely to the SAM'S frequency probably recorded by Israeli drone planes flown over the area before the strikes. The Shrike missiles could then home on the target, effectively turning the enemy missile control system against itself...
Some of the SAM sites were probably wiped out by Maverick air-to-surface missiles, or "smart" bombs, some of which are guided along a pinpoint beam of laser light to within a few feet of the target. They are comparatively slow, but still accurate...