Word: aptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your cover of Sophia Loren [ April 6] is an apt illustration of how a modern artist can make something ugly out of something that is beautiful...
...Apt to Get Caught. The modern jet is a nightmare of complexity. Pilot, co-pilot and engineer are busy during every split second of takeoff-watching instruments, managing flaps and other control surfaces, nursing the engines, checking visually for other planes, and watching for birds that might get sucked into a jet intake. Noise abatement rules only add to their burden at the touchiest moments of flight...
...speed also, just when a plane needs every boost it can get. As it is practiced today, says Edward Bechtold, a safety expert of the Airline Pilots Association, "noise abatement is like a married man going out with other women. If he does it long enough he's apt to get caught...
...Deviation. When Volvo built its first auto in 1927, its engineers were so inexperienced in the field that the car bolted backward when thrown into first gear. Today, however, Volvo factories swarm with lynx-eyed inspectors so uncompromising that suppliers are apt to find entire shipments of parts rejected for a minor deviation that many auto companies would let pass. Such rigid adherence to standards comes straight from Volvo's incisive Managing Director Gunnar Engellau, 55, who coldly compels his top executives to reduce their weight whenever they deviate from his specifications for the ideal male figure. Since Engellau...
...about 196 m.p.h. with the flaps retracted. In a turn with the wings banked at 17 degrees, the kind that jets often make when climbing away from Idlewild's runway 31-L, the stalling speed goes up to about 215 m.p.h. A 707 flying below that speed is apt to lower a wing and dive toward the ground. According to competent eyewitnesses, this is what American's 707 did. The stall, if it was a stall, might have been caused by retracting the flaps, which give the wing extra lift, before the plane had reached flying speed...