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...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...
...David Pratt, chairman of Michigan's department of mechanical engineering and applied mechanics, said this week the complicated formula is necessary because the department wanted to take into account many factors--including GPA, class standing, and credit hours--when choosing among students...
King Arthur, if he existed, probably ruled in the 6th century; tales of his exploits developed, from oral history to moral imperative, over the next thousand years. No visual style could capture his moment with historical accuracy. What is needed-and what Boorman and Production Designer Anthony Pratt deliver -is a ripe and consistent graphic vision. Excalibur is the handsomest film since Terence Malick's Days of Heaven, and is as alive to the subtle textures of earth, water and sky. The land leans gracefully toward the horizon to embrace Camelot, a fairy castle in Eden. The sword that...
...last Abscam trial, of Democratic Senator Harrison Williams of New Jersey, is scheduled to begin on March 30. Already, however, the FBI investigation itself is on trial before Federal Judge George Pratt, who is holding hearings in New York City on whether the agents went too far in trying to encourage Congressmen and others to commit illegal acts. Indeed, Judge William Bryant, who presided at Kelly's trial, has said that Abscam "has an odor to it that is absolutely repulsive." Nonetheless, Justice Department lawyers are confident that the defendants can not show enough evidence of Government overreaching...
...past, a speculative boom in new issues has always been followed by a crash. In the late 1960s investors rushed to buy electronics stocks, and in the early 1970s new computer firms were the rage. Both markets ultimately collapsed. Recalls Stanley Pratt of Venture Capital Journal: "Then two guys in a phone booth could raise several million dollars just by coming up with an idea, putting the suffix 'onics' on the end of it and making it public...