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...modifications will consist of adding new strength to the engine nacelles, whose weakness was the plane's basic flaw, and to the wings. Lockheed will add strengthening attachments to the mount that supports the engine and to the structure that holds the mount to the wing. The wing will get new, tougher planks (lengthwise strips) and be otherwise stiffened by new bracing. The fixes will make the nacelles and wings "fail-safe," i.e., prevent the failure of any part from affecting the whole wing structure. American Airlines, which will sign the first contract, expects modifications of its fleet...
...translations often made of Latin and Greek plays, Mr. Copley has veered too far to the other extreme. In a program note he says that, "As Plautus tried to make his Greeks talk like Romans, the present translator has tried to make Plautus talk like a contemporary American." The flaw in this reasoning is that while there were many points of similarity between the Greek and Roman civilizations, few of these points are mirrored in our time. In particular, since we do not live in a slave society, one of the main characters, a slave taking advantage of his masters...
Back in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower's Republican Congress passed the Submerged Lands Act that awarded the oil-rich "tidelands" off U.S. shores to the states instead of the Federal Government-just as Ike had promised to do in his campaign. But the law had a basic flaw. It set a three-mile limit for Atlantic and Pacific states, yet allowed the states on the Gulf of Mexico-which has most of the under water oil-to claim up to three leagues (10.3 miles) of offshore land, provided that those boundaries existed "at the time such State became a member...
...tall, shambling French aristocrat was a good pilot, in Migeo's estimation, but not a great one, despite great skill and daring. Saint-Ex's grievous flaw, one that involved him in a dozen crashes and near-crashes, was his absentmindedness. He flew for release, if not escape, and once released, his thoughts did not linger on altimeter or compass. His magnificent Flight to Arras is as much a meditation as it is the log of a dangerous reconnaissance mission into German-occupied French territory. With German fighters closing in, the aviator muses for paragraphs about the country...
...later called a "premature antifascist'' and enemies on the left as an early antiCommunist. In his book The Nature and Destiny of Man, he spelled out his paradoxical view of man's need to plan and struggle toward ends which his built-in sin will inevitably flaw...