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DIED. GINO SANTI, 81, U.S. Air Force engineer who developed the pilot ejection system; in Dayton, Ohio. To replace the clumsy climb out of the cockpit, Santi devised a controlled explosion to propel a pilot safely away from a crippled plane...
...Year for 1978. He had only recently been "rehabilitated" in one of the frequent purges of Mao's later years. But we recognized even then that as the chief architect of the so-called Four Modernizations, Deng was destined to play a key role in helping propel China into the modern world. A few weeks later, we were rewarded for our prescience with that first exclusive interview--a 30-minute audience that stretched into 80 minutes and formed the basis of another Deng cover story...
...influential presidential confidante responsible for bringing black and minority concerns into the corridors of power; in Orange, California. Dubbed "the godfather of black politics," he helped clinch black votes for Kennedy in 1960; persuade Johnson to appoint Thurgood Marshall to the Supreme Court; advise Carter on minority affairs; and propel the career of Clinton adviser Vernon Jordan...
Righteous people making miserable the lives they would save--that should be fun. But tyro auteur Alexander Payne cannot shape or propel his own good material. He lets things dawdle when briskness would be a boon, and defeats the gung-ho efforts of Dern and other worthy actors. Citizen Ruth means to evoke such '40s comedies as The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, but it is less Preston Sturges than depressed and turgid...
Coach Jim Rudy's team jumped out of the blocks quickly, winning its first nine games by a combined margin of 24-1, which was good enough to propel UMass into the top 10. The Minutemen dominated opponents such as then-22nd-ranked SMU, who they beat 2-0 while outshooting the Mustangs...