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Taped Voice. By law, the NTSB cannot order the FAA to take action, but it can prod hard. On Oct. 8, NTSB Chairman John H. Reed sent Butterfield an official letter about the "unprofessional conduct" demonstrated by a few U.S. flight crews. To document his concern, Reed cited a number of horrifying incidents resulting from sloppy flying in recent years-a DC-9 striking the water and then bouncing safely into the air while nearing Martha's Vineyard; airliners running into trees, cottages and a sea wall while approaching airports; a DC-9 hitting the runway so hard...
Such gentle prodding could easily turn into tougher tugging if the ratification process continues to stumble slowly along. Certainly, a rank-and-file rejection of the contract--the first such grass-roots referendum ever in an autocratic union that has had the likes of John L. Lewis and W.A. (Tony) Boyle as its advocates--might prod Ford to choose his option of an 80-day, back-to-work, cooling-off period under Taft-Hartley instead of beginning the complex negotiation and ratification cycle again. Whether the miners--a group of workers who, by virtue of the very interdependent nature...
...pungent commentary on the U.N.'s Roman debacle was provided by Pan, a feisty, independent conference newspaper. Directing its barbs impartially, the impromptu daily tried to keep the delegates honest by running such headlines as GUILTY, GULLIBLE AND STUPID-THE IMAGE OPEC COUNTRIES SHOULD BEWARE OF. As a prod to flabby consciences, the puckish Pan staff set up a scale in the delegates' lounge and encouraged overweight representatives to donate a $3-per-lb. "fat tax" to its antihunger crusade. About $150 was collected -perhaps the most tangible expression of good faith seen in Rome last week...
...been a passionate issue in this campaign," he declares. Nor does he display much passion himself except in infrequent face-to-face encounters with Edmund G. ("Jerry") Brown Jr., 36, in which he emerges as a match for the front runner. "Sometimes I wish I had an electric prod," says a Flournoy staffer. "Hugh is so good. But he comes on like Sominex...
...said the purpose of yesterday's exam was "to prod the students into taking the self-paced exams." He also said that "alternative or equivalent exams" would be made available to the students "at their convenience...