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...show that the crew was talking about such trouble moments before impact. One hypothesis is that the left engine stalled out, though the plane should have been able to take off with its remaining two. Another is that spinning wheels and blades of one of the jet's turbines blew apart, sending shrapnel flying into a second engine and making takeoff impossible. The Delta jet was powered by three Pratt & Whitney JT8D engines; some models in the series were targeted by the Government for mandatory inspections and repairs in 1985, after failures were blamed for two major air crashes. Finding...
...crazy. Even Goldman recognizes that the discipline accepted by the Beatles proved liberating. With the album Rubber Soul, he writes, "Lennon was employing the new medium of pop song like a serious artist." In fact, when Lennon could harness his wit and rage within commercial demands, he simply blew away restraints and claimed new territory for the popular imagination. What, then, compelled him to destroy the most successful performing group on earth? Why did he consign his fate to a woman who would later ask friends, "How can that oaf be so successful when I am so much more talented...
Preceding Bush to Los Angeles, Bentsen inspected evidence of gang violence--guns, knives and a bullet-riddled car--which he said had increased during the Reagan administration. Bentsen said Bush had led the war against drugs as vice president and "blew it badly...
Less than 72 hours earlier, in Ballygawley, 40 miles west of Belfast, another I.R.A.-triggered explosion blew up a bus filled with British servicemen returning from furloughs to duty in Northern Ireland. Eight died and 27 were injured. So far this year the I.R.A. has killed 27 British soldiers, including four in Western Europe. The total last year: three. Not since 1979, when 38 soldiers were killed in Northern Ireland, have the outlawed guerrillas been so effective...
Later, an inning short of the official seal, poetry struck a final time, along with lightning. Funnels of dust that some took to be divine displeasure rose up and blew across the infield, and two hours of rain flooded the tarpaulin and washed out the game. The sellout crowd of 39,008 drew back under cover and took the time to really look at the old place in the new light. The outfield wall, with its singular vines and morning glories and spider webs, was humanely spared any hardware. The stanchions peek fairly unobtrusively over the shoulders of the stadium...