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THISWEEK!WITH THE ELAN,18 YEARS ON-John Miles .returns to Lotus'compact sportscar, it still setsstandards !WITHA l f a R o m e o G i u l i e t t a l . 8 AutotestSpec i a l rust-proofing featureO pe l Rek o rd Es ta te long-term testT u r i n S h o w reportM o n a c o a n d B e l g i an G P resultsPLUSA s pec i a l f ea tu re on whatyou've missed wh ~l e e've been off the

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the liner are diamonds worth 12 4 RISING STAR: R e gicEVEN if every lifeboat had been usedto fu ll capacity, more than 1,000 -people would have been IeQt on board.

0 THE 46,000-ton Titan ic took less thantwenty minutes to reach the bottom aftershe was submerged.

MAIDEN VOYAGE: The re al ti'tmic.mSOME of the Titanic lifeboats lefthalf-empty because men +etused fok f d hem after the order "Women andchildren first."0 THE most expensive fare on the Titanicwas 870 one way. For that you had twobedrooms, each with its own dressing room, aprivate bathroom, o sitting room, a servant'sroom and a private promenade deck.

THE cheapest fare was for third-class'travel with full meals. It cost 9.75.9 N the fifteen hours before the icebergcollision, the Titanic received five sefxr-rate warnings of the ice danger.

RISEN FROMTHE Titanic had on board a Turkishboth, a squash court, a ballroom, acovered swimming pool and a skatingrink.AMONG the unusual crew members was agardener who looked after the rose bedson deck.THERE were 57 millionaires on theTitanic when she sailed on her first

and last voyage.0 THE fiist-ever S 0 S distress signal sentout on radio by a ship at sea was thatsent by the Titanic.

IN Southampton, the Titanic's homeport, there are two memorials to thedead crewmen. One for officers andanother for stewards, .firemen andseamen.As the ship was sin khg , one of the hymnsplayed by th e band contained the line"Hold me up, in mighty waters."

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THE GRAVE: After 63 ears the Titanic liv5s again. The model is perfect-at E3 mill ion it was E500,OOO more costly to build than the real thing. IN an awesome fury of spray a sta ris born. The ill-fated super-linerTitanic rises from her oceangrave to take the leading role in amammoth new movie.

Well, not quite . This Titanic is a mere55 feet long andweighs only 11 tons.And she is surfacingi n a m a n - m a d eocean.

The giant model, per-fect in every detail wasbuilt for Raise TheTitanic!-a film tha t

blends fact and fictionin a remarkable seaadventure.FACT: In April 1912the luxury British linerTitanic, bound fromSouthampton to NewYork on her maidenvoyage, was sunk by aniceberg off Newfound-land. More than 1,500passengers and crewdied.FICTION: The Titaniccarried quantities of arare ore in her vault.Sixty-eight years afterthe disaster, accordingto the script, Americaneeds the precious min-eral urgently to developa neM defence weapon.Ru s~i a is interestedtoo. And the race is onto retrieve the wreckf r o m t h e N o r t hAtlantic.It's quite a task. Theocean where the Titanicnose-dived is more thantwo miles deep.But . for the b i ~creen

and Lord Lew 'Grade,anything is possible.After two years' workand a Titanic-sizedbud et of around 17milfion, the e ic . isalmost complete1The production starsJason Robards, RichardJordan, David Selby,Anne Archer and SirAlec Guinness.Filming took them toA m e r i c a , G r e e c e ,Alaska, England andMalta, where the artifi-cial ocean was bu ~l torunderwater scenes.But in the end, thefilm's real star is thatwonderful model of theTitan@--a hitMW copyof the real thing downto the last porthole.Just for the record:the pint-sized .versioncost500,0003 orei l l ion ,han ther

ori rnal lmer.. Isat's inflation foryou.M I R R O R PICTURE EXCLUSIVE by DAVlD STEEN