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...term was coined by a covey of professors at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government--Joseph S. Nye Jr., Graham T. Allison and Albert Carnesale. In their book Hawks, Doves, and Owls: An Agenda for Avoiding Nuclear War, they urge a series of steps to minimize the risk of a catastrophic accident. Among them: upgrading the hotline by creating crisis-control centers, establishing sanctions against nuclear proliferation, replacing short-range nuclear weapons in Europe with conventional warheads, holding regular meetings between U.S. and Soviet military leaders, and adding safety devices to prevent the inadvertent launching of submarine-based...
Despite the precautions, none of the experts were worried about the overall reliability of the 747, which some pilots affectionately call "Fat Albert" because of its bulging profile. Many consider it one of the safest airliners ever built. It is also the largest, with a wingspan of 196 ft. and a length of 232 ft. Boeing has delivered 618 of the planes to 68 airlines since production began in 1966. Only 15 of the jumbos have been lost, and none of the previous accidents were attributed to structural or mechanical defects. Still, the sundered tail sections that dropped into Sagami...
...Landers. "I cannot imagine a job that could have provided me with more satisfaction or a better opportunity to touch the lives of so many people," she wrote on the anniversary. Then last week the columnist was named (along with two Nobel prizewinners) among five recipients of the 1985 Albert Lasker medical research and public service awards. Mary Lasker, 84, who with her late husband Albert established the prestigious honors 40 years ago, presented Landers with a statuette and a $15,000 honorarium "for her 30 years of tireless commitment to improve the physical and emotional health of the American...
Foreign businessmen learn that in Japan profitmaking requires patience. In the U.S., deals may be struck over a single lunch, but Japanese executives feel comfortable only after extended contact. Says Albert Sieg, president of Kodak Japan: "The worst mistake is to tell your prospective business partners that your plane leaves at 2 p.m. Friday, and you have to clinch a deal by then...
...begins, brusquely dismisses Rin-Tin-Tin. The introduction of talking pictures, argues one Warner executive, has turned their canine star into just another unemployed hound, "very obviously, of course, because dogs don't talk." To the regret of Jack Warner, who ran the studios (Brother Harry was president and Albert was treasurer), his other stars could talk and often did. When Davis objects to being cast in something called Hollywood Hotel (1937), her withering look can be seen between her lines to him: "I have worked very hard to become known as a dramatic actress," she wrote...