Word: allison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adams House: Graham T. Allison, Jr., Joseph L. Featherstone, James J. Fox, Douglas B. Hanson, Burt P. Johnson, Jr., Donald M. Scott, Lawrence N. Stevens II, James T. Halverson...
...sheets, Return "begins where Peyton Place left off." The main characters, though portrayed by different actors, are the same, and so is the theme that the nicest people have the filthiest minds. The plot is obviously patterned on the author's own frantic life. Like Author Metalious. Heroine Allison (Carol Lynley) writes a naughty bestseller about life in her own home town, makes a stack of chips and a mess of trouble. Because of the book, her stepfather (Robert Sterling), principal of the local high school, loses his job-in real life, the author's teacher-husband...
...tough little 150-pounder who gives the transplaned Twins somebody on which they can at last found an infield. Harmon Killebrow is for real; he proved it last year with 31 homers after a late year start. Jim Lemon can hit for distance, Lennie Green for average, and Bob Allison, who should recover from sophomore slump, for both. Earl Battey is the best catcher in the A.L., and Camilio Pascual and Pedro Ramos are two of the top huriers...
...been my privilege to fly." His testimony seemed in direct conflict with the views of his own airline, which only the day before in Dallas had filed a $2,400,000 suit against Lockheed Aircraft, the Electra's maker, and General Motors, which supplied the plane's Allison turboprop engines, charging that the Electra was "negligently and carelessly planned, designed, manufactured and inspected." The suit was based on the 1959 crash of one of Braniff's Electras near Buffalo, Texas, which was blamed on a structural failure of the wing root-the same failure that knocked another...
Tests in the past have shown that birds drawn into Allison engines through the 2-ft.-wide air scoops cause flameouts about 50% of the time-a danger that experts believe is also shared by the pure jets. Said Quesada: "There is absolutely no evidence that the Boston accident was in any way whatsoever associated with the type of structural failure that caused two previous Electra crashes. Any airplane encountering a massive flock of birds at low altitude, when its air speed is critical, is going to have trouble...