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Though the cause of the Tokyo crash remains unknown, the Federal Aviation Agency as a result ordered foreign and domestic airlines to inspect and, if necessary, repair tail assemblies of 190 older Boeing 707s and 720s. So far, they have found 61 planes with tiny fissures around the bolt holes where the tail is fastened to the fuselage. In most cases, the affected aircraft have been airborne again within two days...
...that it could be towed by surface ship up the incline to a plateau 2,000 ft. below the sea's surface. Once it was on level ground, the bomb would be clamped in steel jaws and brought up to the 400-ft. level, where Navy divers would inspect the bomb. If it was intact and constituted no radiation danger, it was to be winched aboard the U.S.S. Hoist. By special order of Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, the bomb was to be shown to members of the press and photographed-the first time in history that...
...attention. He checks every footlight mike to make sure it is cased in rubbe-otherwise, the mikes pick up the actor's footfalls. He prowls about the sets in narrow-eyed search of peeling paint. He even makes elaborate taxi tours of the entire New York area to inspect all the billboards he has paid for. Once he climbed to a high perch in Yankee Stadium to see if a panning TV camera could catch a certain outfield billboard; he concluded that the sign was out of range, so he didn't buy the space...
...Grimm, 25, a Berkeley graduate student in marketing who has al ready served two years in Viet Nam with the Green Berets. Grimm, who receives his master of business administration degree this summer, has been interviewed by 15 companies. He has gotten eight "seconds"-invitations to inspect company facilities and talk seriously about work and salary-and expects several more before he is finally forced to make a choice...
...whom she wrote 26 stormy love letters that appear for the first time in these volumes. Soon jilted, Lady Mary stayed on in Italy until, at 72, she announced: "I am dragging my ragged remnant of life to England." When she arrived, half of London turned out to inspect the legendary monster. Her vivacity was so great that nobody guessed she was dying of cancer. To Lady Mary herself, death was a matter of indifference. "I have lived long enough," she declared firmly. And she was off to catch the setting...