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...cope with sticky controls, inadequately lubricated engine instruments and an anti-icing valve that stuck. A forced evacuation of one plane, because of an engine fire, turned up a flaw in the emergency chute: it peels the panty hose right off women in miniskirts. In addition, the giant Pratt & Whitney engines have been particularly troublesome. The latest difficulty involves bolts that occasionally loosen in flight and permit a small metal plate to fly through the engine, forcing a shutdown. Now when a 747 touches down for a landing, mechanics often use a periscope-like device called a chamberscope to check...
...GEORGE PRATT SHULTZ, 49, named last week by President Nixon to head his powerful new Office of Management and Budget, peers through his spectacles with the donnish calm of a scholar about to address a graduate seminar. He comes by his professorial reserve quite naturally: he took a Ph.D. in industrial economics at M.I.T. and taught there for several years. Later, he served as dean of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business until Nixon picked him to be Secretary...
...same boat-a slave ship. "Real revolution won't occur until poor whites as well as poor blacks realize they are oppressed," Bailey explains. Bailey's career is typical of the new opportunities opening for talented young blacks. Born in Harlem, he got scholarship funds to Pratt Institute. He appeared in the Whitney Annual show this year, and is now living in the artists' community of Yaddo in Saratoga Springs...
...John W. Pratt, professor of Business Administration and currently in charge of the course, said, "I don't think the book is unclear. The problem is likely to be that it's too detailed for easy reading...
...course, these are the kind of gremlins that infest almost any new airliner in its early service, and there is little doubt that most of them will soon be overcome. For example, Pratt & Whitney engineers quickly came up with recommendations for avoiding the engine trouble that delayed the inaugural flight. This problem occurs only rarely and is not dangerous. The engineers suggested that airlines have a man in the 747 cockpit watch the engine temperature gauges continuously during taxiing. If engine overheating is noticed immediately, they say, the pilot can shut down and restart the engines before they are damaged...