Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Puritan New England regarded obesity as a flagrant symbol of intemperance, and thus a sin. Says Keys: "Maybe if the idea got around again that obesity is immoral, the fat man would start to think." Morals aside, the fat man has plenty to worry about-over and above the fact...
No swivel-chair man, Piper travels some 75,000 miles a year to extol his planes' virtues, sometimes gets so wound up that he forgets to stop. "A speech is like an airplane engine," he says. "It may sound like hell, but you've got to go on...
"The Electra's O.K." So said Federal Aviation Agency Chief Elwood R. Quesada last week as he lifted the 259-mile-an-hour speed restriction he had imposed on the plane nearly a year ago after two crashes took 97 lives. The FAA had taken improved Electras, their engine...
When U.S. observers in a C-47 flew up to photograph the operation, a machine gun, either in the Ilyushin or on the ground, opened up, shot out one engine on the American C-47 and riddled the fuselage.
What's Being Done? Noise costs U.S. industry an estimated $2,000,000 a day in workmen's compensation (for noise-related injuries), lost man-hours and decreased efficiency-but industry has been slow about putting in adequate controls. U.S. airlines, for example, balk at installing adequate jet...