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...most profound engineering problems that have confronted our company in three decades of airplane building." As McBrearty ex plained it, the two Electras were brought down by a combination of factors, none of which would have been enough to wreck the planes by itself. The basic flaw was that the support structure of the wing nacelles, holding the plane's turbo prop engines, was not built sturdily enough. When damaged or weakened by such a common occurrence as a rough landing, the struts beneath the four engines no longer held the engine nacelle tightly enough in place. Said McBrearty...
Characters in several Snow novels die from other causes and suffer from other afflictions; several commit suicide or go mad, struck down by some unexplained flaw of character or of fate. The scientific promise of food and health has obviously not been able to save them, and Snow evades that dilemma. The poor boy who found his way through the corridors of power still finds it more pertinent to insist, with old-fashioned and unabashed optimism, that "industrialisation is the only hope of the poor...
...should score freely, batting ahead of Willie Mays (.313), Willie McCovey (.354) and Orlando Cepeda (.317)¶ The Milwaukee Braves have New Manager Chuck Dressen, a nonstop talker and one of baseball's finest tacticians, to shake new life into aging but still skilled veterans. Fatal flaw of the Braves last year was the hole at second base. This spring Red Schoendienst, 37, back from a bout with TB, is trying to plug the hole. ¶ The well-balanced Pittsburgh Pirates depend in the end on Pitcher Bob Friend, who had a miserable season last year (8-19). This...
...show submerged men hopefully sucking on bags full of air or puffing on tubes reaching to the surface. Looking for something better, Cousteau tried an oxygen lung based on a design developed by the British as early as 1878. He almost killed himself. He did not know the fatal flaw of oxygen: it becomes toxic at depths below 30 ft.* Twice Cousteau had convulsive spasms, was barely able to drop his weights and make the surface...
Family Man. Last week's emotional high point came when Jaccoud's wife Erna took the stand to insist that her unfaithful husband was a "devoted, exemplary family man, who saw to it that our children and I lacked nothing." His only flaw: "He did not spend his leisure time with his family." He was far too shy to be a killer, insisted Erna Jaccoud. Under the stress of her testimony, Defendant Jaccoud fainted dead away. After a 15-minute adjournment, the judge asked everyone to do his utmost to "get this painful part of the proceedings over...