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...levels of acceptability. Mechanics do not knowingly send unsound planes back to the flight line, but they have a limited number of planes to keep flying, and front-office pressure to keep those planes in the air can be subtly intense. Occasionally, the mechanics slip; in 1961, a Northwest Orient plane's aileron cables were improperly installed, causing a crash that killed...
...depends on readers who are willing to believe the unbelievable. Its story deals with a campaign to build a Korean War memorial in Hawley, a little inbred New England town on the Atlantic shore. Even before the selectmen vote on it, this modest proposal nourishes more intrigues than the Orient Express and incites more violence, including suicide and murder, than a Mafia convention. None of the characters ever fully escape their enormous and restrictive obligations to the story. But for all that, the reader may find himself wistfully trying to swallow Benchley's preposterous tale, if only...
...VENEZUELA Volunteers will teach their specialties in universities in Caracas, Merida, Valencia and at the four campuses of the University of the Orient in eastern Venezuela...
Here, rather than in China, Buddha grew to his tallest: a 175-ft.-high statue hewn from a sandstone cliff in the Afghan valley of Bamian-a display of gigantism inherited more from the colossal marble Caesars of Rome than from the subtler Orient. It was also in this Eurasian melting pot that Buddha acquired his characteristic togalike robe, borrowed from Rome. Likewise Hercules (opposite) holds the hero's traditional club, but his head is crowned with Serapis' sacred basket of mysteries, symbolizing the Nile's fertility...
Fran P. Hosken, an "architectural writer," observed that neither building expresses the spirit of the subject studied there. She complained that Larsen Hall "lacks all reference to people in its blank walls -- such references as windows, floor divisions, or some means for the eye to orient itself to 'read' the building." "Why should a building concerned with . . . teaching shut out the world and turn inside itself?" Miss Hosken asked...