Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gerd is the antithesis of a pin-up girl: 5 ft. 3 in., 161 Ibs., with measurements of 45-39-43. But never mind. Fan letters have been pouring into Fuji's Düsseldorf office at the rate of 20 a day asking for reprints of the ad, which shows Gerd on an Ibiza beach over the caption, "Take a picture of your sunshine in the sunshine." A German air force squadron at Sobernheim has requested 30 blowups, and Fuji's ad agency has printed 10,000 posters, which it is selling for $3.11 apiece. A record...
...methodical, Marilyn Durham seems rather beguilingly unaware of her book's freshness. She likes to call it a western gothic and says that the squaw Cat Dancing is "an Indian Rebecca - there to give the hero a Past." She loves reading trash, has never met an Augusta Evans fan who didn't become a soulmate...
...every sci-fi fan knows, one of the great hazards of space travel between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is the asteroid belt: a doughnut-shaped stretch of floating debris that could fatally pierce the thin metallic skin of a speeding spacecraft. Now, for the first time, a real ship is beginning to run this rocky gauntlet. Success will increase the possibility of future missions to Jupiter and the other outer planets (Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto...
...difficulty centers on the fan blades in the Pratt & Whitney JT9D-3A engines, which were put on early models of the 747. What is eerie about the problem is that it continues to occur even though Pratt & Whitney has supplied the airlines with new blades made of higher heat-resistant alloys. Pratt & Whitney is now sending to the lines a comprehensive "modification kit" that changes parts of the engine and converts it to the equivalent of the power plant used in the new 747s. These later-model planes have not had an abnormally high rate of blade failure. Trouble...
Travail. Meanwhile, the repair bill is climbing; it averages $100,000 per engine. Fan-related repair costs this month have cost Pan Am alone some $1,200,000. Pratt & Whitney's engines are covered by such a complicated warranty that lawyers may become rich arguing over how much of the repair will have to be paid for by the manufacturer and how much by the airlines...