Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DEBUSSY: SONATA FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO (Everest). In Debussy's ethereal duet, written the year before he died, the sinuous lines of the violin float on air while the piano furnishes ground swells of sound. Debussy's directions for the second movement-"fantastic and light"-set the entire mood for French Violinist Christian Ferras and Pianist Pierre Barbizet. They also play Fauré's Second Violin Sonata, written like Debussy's in 1917 and likewise impressionist in manner, but more restrained...
While White and Cotton tried desperately to move the gear by whipping the plane's nose up and down, ground engineers pored over charts in order to pinpoint the exact cause of the trouble. They concluded that a short circuit had snarled the computer, which was programmed to allow the landing gear to rise and descend only when the wheel-cavity doors were fully open. Control of the gear thus had to be removed from the computer. By causing a second short circuit, ground engineers advised, the pilots might manage to circumvent the computer and disengage the landing gear...
...Cotton was to find the one minute area for manipulation among thousands of miles of wire and innumerable relay points. For 75 minutes, while White piloted the plane, Cotton crawled back and forth between Cecil's innards and the cockpit, where he could get guidance from the ground. He was armed with the flashlight, screw driver and pliers that he always carries with him when flying. Finally he thought he had located the right relay switch. Taking a dime-store binder clip that he uses to hold papers in his documents case, Cotton ripped off one of the clasp...
After cruising for another 75 minutes to reduce their fuel load, White decided to graze the ground briefly to ascertain whether the forward gear was properly locked in place. As soon as he touched down, six of the eight tires on the main landing gear blew out. The same computer failure that had affected the forward gear had locked the brakes on the main wheels, freezing them. White had no choice but to go through with the landing. "It was an experience we wouldn't have missed for worlds," said White, "and one we wouldn't like...
Swooping in from north, south and west, the heliborne Americans hammered the Reds down onto an anvil of South Vietnamese motorized troops. One battalion was run to ground near the village of Tham Son, ten miles north of Bong Son. Red machine guns forced back an assault by troopers of one Air Cav battalion. The Americans dug in behind 2-ft. paddy walls and called for air strikes. Flights of fighter-bombers screeched in with napalm followed by bombs to spread the flaming jellied gasoline. Toll: 146 dead Reds...