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Nova is not content merely to wag its finger. Having identified the problems, the program suggests solutions-and sounds a tocsin. In Switzerland, a country with one-tenth the fire-casualty rate of the U.S., the show notes, chimney sweeps are required to clean and inspect every building regularly. "Many say that Americans would not tolerate the rules and regulations and residential inspections of the Swiss," viewers are advised. "Americans, it seems, would rather burn.'' -By Philip Faflick
...passed your suggestion along to coach Frank McLaughlin and he said he will let you know. He is sifting through offers from a church in Brookline, a playground in Jamaica Plain and an alleyway in Charlestown, but he has your address and he will be around to inspect the site...
...Council. Said Haddad: "The Arabs must get a bomb." In the face of such statements, the Israelis were not reassured by the fact that Iraq had signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty, thereby vowing not to make nuclear weapons and agreeing to let experts of the International Atomic Energy Agency inspect its atomic installations...
Space agency engineers are convinced that they can deal with any problems that turn up when work crews inspect the engines, test all systems and go over the ship with a space-age version of a fine-tooth comb. If so, Columbia should be ready and waiting by the end of September or early October to take Astronauts Joe Engle, 48, and Richard Truly, 43, on man's second shuttle flight into space...
...ribbing inside looks like metal, but it is in fact neither metal nor spruce but laminated birch stuck together with glue. Everything is enormously outsize. At their thickest point the interior of the wings is 11 ft. high. A big man can walk out easily inside the wings to inspect the eight 28-cylinder Pratt & Whitney engines, the largest radial engines ever built. For that matter, it is possible to crawl up inside the rudder structure for 20 ft. or so. There is no crack or corrosion anywhere. The plane could...