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Boeing surely deserves credit for excellence in aircraft design, but don't forget the contribution made by the jet-engine companies, including Pratt & Whitney, General Electric and Rolls-Royce. The plane is designed around the engine. Recent advances in technology far surpass those of the airframe makers. The principal reason that Boeing and the other companies are venturing into new models is that these advances cut fuel costs while improving thrust and reliability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 28, 1980 | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

...requires well-trained athletes, not the hell-for-leather but paunchy types who once populated the sport. Before restrictions in the early '50s, on the combined weight of sled and crew, bobsledders simply loaded their machines with beef, using the extra weight to build momentum. Recalls Nathan Pratt, who daily hand-sculpts the course's corners by shaving ice in one spot or building it up in another: "In the old days, they used to train by drinking gallons of beer. Sometimes I'd have to help the guys into their sleds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beware Zigzag and Shady | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

...Pennsylvania Sweeper Kristin Spaeth Jr. Yale Sweeper Debbie Censits Jr. Pennsylvania Back Jeanette Raymond Sr. Princeton Back Chris Sailer Jr. Harvard Back Diane Angstadt Jr. Pennsylvania Link Janet Colarusso So. Yale Midfield Nancy Lock So. Pennsylvania Forward Kate Martin Fr. Harvard Forward Debbie Pickhardt Jr. Cornell Forward Lisa pratt Sr. Princeton Forward Ellen Remsen Sr. Dartmouth Forward Lisa Romig So. Pennsylvania Forward

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: All-Ivy Field Hockey | 12/6/1979 | See Source »

...piece was part of an exhibit of 70 Chinese ceramic and jade objects donated to the museum from the collection of Ernest B. Dane '27 and Helen Pratt Dane. The exhibit has been on display at the Fogg since October...

Author: By Andrew B. Herrmann, | Title: Police Departments Investigate Robbery at Fogg Art Museum | 11/29/1979 | See Source »

Princeton winger Lisa Pratt slapped a pass in front of the goalmouth, and Ippolito shifted her position to cut down the angle. The ball was misdirected, however, when it hit Riefler's stick and rolled slowly into the Harvard net, inches past Ippolito...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Princeton Purrs Past Stickwomen, 1-0 | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

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