Word: donalds
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...another vacation, to a Santa Barbara, California, ranch, she took tapes of Richard Feynman's lectures at Cornell, and they studied physics. And on a larger excursion with friends to central Africa, which ended at some beach cottages on an island off Zanzibar, among their companions was anthropologist Donald Johanson, known for his work on the human ancestor Lucy, who helped teach them about human evolution. In the evenings on each trip they would go to the beach with four or five other couples for bonfires, Hood Canal-style games and a tradition they called the sing-down, where each...
...Reported by Dan Cray/Los Angeles, Alice Park/New York and Donald Shapiro/Taichung
...just finished reading Mark Thompson's report on the crash of the F-15 in Germany and the U.S. Air Force's decision to court-martial Technical Sergeants Thomas Mueller and William Campbell, both mechanics, for the death of pilot Major Donald Lowry Jr. [NATION, Dec. 2]. It is truly incredible that the Air Force pursued these two men, when in essence it was the Air Force itself that took no steps to fix the flight-control rods so they could not be misconnected and to warn mechanics of the problem. This was a double tragedy; the suicide of Mueller...
...uncle of F-15 pilot Donald Lowry Jr., and as you indicated, the Lowry family never felt that mechanic Mueller should have been prosecuted. The accident was an error that happened only as a result of the negligence of the Air Force brass in notifying the guys on the line of the potential ease of cross-connecting the F-15's flight-control rods. It is the family's impression that the officers who ran the shop either did not inform the mechanics of the problem or at the very least did not verify that their work was done correctly...
...national racing colors for their flagship images: silver for Germany, white for Italy, red for Britain." You got only one of three national auto-racing colors right, Germany's, which is indeed silver. But Britain's is green, not red, and Italy's is red, not white. DONALD L. STURGEON Wilmington, Delaware