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...DREAMER. Will Cady Perkins, 22, of the Pratt Institute in New York City, is a misfit in the modern world. . "If I had my way, the glamour of kings and queens would come back," he says wistfully. "Life today can be pretty dull. People should run around in period costumes." Last month the blond, bearded graduate created a still-life puppet show, with twelve porcelain-headed puppets in full Victorian dress, in a gallery of the main building at Pratt. Perkins changed the puppets' positions each day and used cards to explain what was happening in his mini-Forsyte...
...PRATT INSTITUTE
...crash was mystifying because modern commercial aviation had apparently solved the problems that brought the DC-9 hurtling out of the sky at 150 m.p.h. The engine was one of the most reliable ever made: Pratt & Whitney's JT8D7, now used by some 2,800 aircraft all over the world. Never in 112 million hours of flying time had rain or hail caused one of these engines-let alone two-to "flame out" (quit). Federal air-safety experts discovered that the engines had ingested a great deal of water and overheated, but they were not sure of the exact...
...Maryland Governor was indicted last November on charges involving bribery. The federal judge on the case was disqualified by an appeals court because a former law partner had a peripheral relationship to the case. Thereupon all eight other federal judges in Maryland also disqualified themselves. Finally, John H. Pratt, 65, had to be imported from Washington, D.C. Though virtually every Marylander knew about the charges, Pratt refused to move the trial to Virginia and began working his way through 240 jury candidates, mindful of the added complication that the defendant's state government and the prosecution's Federal...
...Pratt died in the autumn, however, without seeing his hope fulfilled...