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...Aeromexico Flight 498, Pilot Arturo Valdes Prom was helpless. Glistening behind him in the noonday sun were the falling remains of his plane's horizontal stabilizer, a part of the tail that is vital to maintaining control. Also fluttering to the ground was the fuselage of a single-engine Piper Cherokee Archer that had collided with the DC-9 on the virtually cloudless day. Trying to slow the dive of his 60-ton plane, Valdes threw its two engines into reverse thrust. The whine of the jets grew to an awful roar before the airliner smashed with a fiery explosion...
...Aeromexico airliner's 64 occupants perished. So did William Kramer, 53, a retired executive of Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp., who was piloting the Piper; his wife Kathleen, 51; and daughter Caroline, 27. The tragedy was compounded by the devastation on the ground. The disintegrating jet slammed into the tidy houses below, igniting fires and spewing debris over several blocks. Sixteen houses were badly damaged, eight destroyed. The task of counting fatalities turned into a macabre chore as authorities tried to distinguish body parts of the air travelers from those of victims on the ground. The best estimate was that...
Charles, Prince of Wales, attended the Gund Hall forum, seated on a dais facing the discussion panel. The crowd, which was searched and checked off from a master list as they entered Piper Auditorium, seemed more interested in the Prince than in the forum, "The Future of the City: The Next 50 Years...
...14th Annual Flute Convention in New York City, gathered in the plaza at Lincoln Center one morning last week for a "flute-in"; they included teachers from Kentucky, flute- makers from Connecticut and Suzuki-method pupils from California. As cameras focused in for the Today show, diminutive Irish Pied Piper James Galway led the rows of virtuosos in Danny Boy, then John Denver's Annie's Song, which a Galway recording has popularized, and finally Amazing Grace. Why not a classical program? Says Galway: "What's the first thing you'd want to hear in the morning? Not some flute...
...sources of funding and their different political perspectives, do share the norm and the practice of a commitment to truth and unbiased use of evidence. Do we really want to live in an intellectual climate in which our opinion of a book or article rests on who paid the piper? If things come to that, I can see little reason why any young person with integrity would want to become a scholar...