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Despite justifiable worries about close calls in the sky, the collision of two Northwest airliners at Detroit's Metro Airport last week suggests that airplane passengers face grave danger even on the ground. The accident, in which eight people were killed and 24 injured, raised a life-and-death question: If runways are so foggy that a pilot can miss two turns and wind up in the path of a plane rolling toward takeoff, why is the airport still open...
Landings had been banned at Metro because of the fog, but takeoffs were allowed to continue because visibility on the runways was declared to be above the required quarter-mile minimum. Captain William Lovelace, making only his 13th flight after a five-year absence (he had left to get treatment for a kidney-stone ailment and later opened a gift shop), apparently became disoriented in the murk shortly after pulling his DC-9 away from the gate. According to investigators, he made a left turn onto a wrong taxiway, then failed to turn right onto a second taxiway that would...
Will the recent phenomenon of Dersh Worship backfire amid a wave of public skepticism of an attorney-run-amok? Mike Barnicle, The Boston Globe's metro columnist, certainly thinks...
...Biscayne, the affluent residential island of 12,000 south of Miami, 58% of the voters chose to secede from Metropolitan Dade County and incorporate their community as a separate city. Reason: anger over Metro Dade's zoning decisions, which have led to overdevelopment and congestion, according to the secessionists. At least four other Miami-region communities are plotting their escape from the county bureaucracy...
Each came to a tragic end. John spent his last years caricaturing himself in films. Lionel was ignored by the studio he helped build. In 1954, when he was terminally ill, his unused dressing room came to the attention of Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer. "There was a shortage: James Cagney needed quarters for his current film. Consent to dismantle Lionel's suite, store his belongings and reassign the bungalow was granted in a memo of November 15." Lionel died that evening. Peters notes dryly, "MGM couldn't even wait for its most durable star to stop breathing." In old age Ethel...