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...advance and deploys his forces accordingly. If a missile to be tested has heat-seeking guidance, he cannot use aircraft for fear the missile will turn on the planes. When aircraft can be used, they loiter as close as they dare. Sometimes they drop a flare to mark the impact. Sometimes the helicopters land and pick up small items, but fallen missiles are dangerous. Each carries a "destruct" charge to blow it to bits in case it heads for a place where it can do damage. Colonel Thum's recovery men are experts in the nasty business of disconnecting...
...political guessing game. Rocky himself was-and is-noncommittal. "I think," says Rockefeller, "we should let the voters comment on that in November." But he is acutely aware that the New York election returns will be closely analyzed for signs of the divorce's impact. And he is confident that the decision will be in his favor; a poll several weeks after the divorce showed that his popularity had dropped only a meager...
...there are many reasons why he became intrigued by the Armada, from the fact that it set sail on May 9,* his birthday, to the fact that it is in every Spaniard's blood. Most of the paintings are small, but their scale does not detract from their impact. The ships struggle against wind and fire in a kind of wild dance; they glow bright red, founder among emerald waves, finally surrender to the sloshing rhythm of the sea. There is always high drama in the fall of a great fleet, and Julio de Diego has caught it well...
...there are several reasons for retaining the in-person lecture. Some lecturers, though admittedly a minority, have an inspirational impact which can not be put down in black and white. Merely to hear these men speak is often enough to arouse the student's interest in the subject...
Most lecturers do not have this impact, of course, but even for the ordinary, workaday lecturer there are several advantages in a personal delivery. For one thing, if he is there facing his students the lecturer can see what goes over and what doesn't, and he can thus expand and clarify confusing points. This can be particularly important when dealing with highly technical or highly complex material...