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...crew is wary of modern navigational instruments, preferring to depend on triangles, protractors and geometry lessons of old. The hydraulic steering mechanism, for example, allows Cavalier to be guided by automatic pilot, but no one trusts it for work hi shallow waters. Says Seaman Aaron Hairston, 33: "If you had an accident while you were on autopilot, you'd never be able to look at the water in your bathtub again." To the crew, the white-boxed computer, which winks out positions and readings from information beamed by a satellite, is a dunce. More often than not compass beats...
...hoped for a happy day to mark an historic occasion. Our wildest hopes have been exceeded." Total arrests for the wedding day: ten, all for such minor offenses as pickpocketing or indecent assault. Along the length of the processional route, the rudest sign that greeted the royals was HI, MUM-which could have been, given the circumstances and the spelling, either a message directed via TV toward home or a chummy salute to the Queen Mother...
...what was going on. Dan Rather, trying to sum it all up, decided that the Crown, like Britain, "endured," a view forgivably more optimistic at this moment than his earlier one. On television the eye saw youth, beauty, ceremony and enthusiastic crowds. The ear had been told of troubles hi this one brief moment known as Camelot. Together the eye and ear may have got it about right...
DIED. Fernand Spaak, 57, Belgian diplomat who headed the European Community Commission's delegation to Washington from 1975 to 1980 and who hi February became chief of staff to Commission President Gaston Thorn hi Brussels; of wounds received when he was shot with a hunting rifle, apparently by his estranged wife of 28 years, Anna-Maria, who then appears to have committed suicide by electrocuting herself in the bath; in Ixelles, Belgium. The son of Paul-Henri Spaak, the former Belgian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister who played a major role in the formation of the European Community...
Weinberger does his pondering in a third-floor Pentagon office, which is dominated by Titian's Titian and Assistant, on loan from the National Gallery. Among his redecorating touches: adding some antique military swords to his office and installing a hi-fi system. The Secretary likes to contemplate the nation's security to classical music. He generally arrives at work between 7:30 and 8 a.m. He puts in twelve hours and returns home with a full briefcase for postdinner consideration. He lives in a $750,000 town house near Washington's Embassy Row with his wife of 38 years...