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...group of Amherst students found George E. P. Mount castle '72, of Adams House and Baltimore, lying on the pavement beneath Pratt Dormitory at 10:30 p. m. Saturday. No one saw him fall. Mount castle was still alive when he was brought to the hospital. He was pronounced dead at 3 a. m. Sunday...
...moment, however, the planes are the world's largest gliders -because they have no engines. Pan Am had been scheduled to get the first three commercial giants, each with a capacity of 362 passengers, in late November. Last week embarrassed Boeing officials said that performance difficulties in the Pratt & Whitney JT9D engines would delay that delivery by as much as eight weeks...
...problem is that Boeing had originally asked Pratt & Whitney to provide an engine thrust of 41,500 Ibs. As the weight of the plane rose during development, however, the engineers had to revise this figure to 43,500 Ibs.-all within the original production schedule. When the engine strains for that much power, its casing tends to distort or "ovalize." That, in turn, reduces the amount of thrust and raises fuel consumption by 5%. Pratt & Whitney engineers are trying to find a way of installing stiffening rods that would eliminate distortion of the casing. The Federal Aviation Administration will have...
ALBERT CHRIST-JANER Pratt Institute New York City...
...professionals have fared no better. George Miller, senior vice president of the San Francisco firm that manages the $544 million Commonwealth Group of Mutual Funds, encourages his analysts to invest with their own cash. "Virtually without ex ception, they are losing money now," he reports. Dr. Shannon Pratt, director of the Portland (Ore.) State University Investment Analysis Center, estimates that the value of his own stocks has dropped 23% since May-a period during which the Dow-Jones industrial average has gone down 15%. He invests largely in over-the-counter stocks, which rose faster than most listed shares during...