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...doubts about Aeroflot's safety record, Soviet authorities agreed to let two representatives of the U.S. Air Line Pilots Association visit Moscow to discuss the latest crash. One obvious talking point: Why was the Ilyushin permitted to attempt a landing in poor visibility when the airport's instrument landing system was out of action...
...done to a pair of F-111 fighter-bombers at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. The sabotage was discovered when a preflight electronic check-out indicated trouble. Then, in August, four RF4 Phantom jets at Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas, were more ineptly sabotaged. Electrical plugs under the cockpit instrument panels were pulled out -a fact that was instantly perceived when the panel lights failed...
...Robbins, former Brandeis Rose Art Gallery Director William Seitz, former Director of the Museum of Fine Arts Perry Rathbone, Boston's First Lady Kathy White, art patron Elma Lewis, and filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. Some of these sponsors donated works to be sold in the auction, like an antique instrument given by former President of Radcliffe Mary Bunting, while others helped publicize the event. But the real organization job rested with chairwoman collector Nataile Klebenov...
...equal to the singing. In addition to the perfect horn obbligato, the other soloists were very good. The oboes, flutes, and violins all accompanied with great care. The rarely-played Aeolian-Skinner organ of Symphony Hall was used with registrations quite appropriate to its role as a continuo instrument. It was especially effective in the Cum sancto spiritu and the exultant Et expecto resurrectionem...
...EVENT, the fact remains that the Frobenius is a well-crafted instrument, quite capable of fulfilling the church's sacred and secular functions. As a baroque organ (only the swell shutters and celeste belie this), its balance is too far off in favor of the noisy mixture stops, clearly a serious fault in a room with so little resonance...