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...allegations against Evergreen, which has never been implicated in a major crash, may point to a wider problem in aviation maintenance. Just last week the NTSB announced that it would hold a public hearing on the crash last year of an Emery Worldwide Airlines DC-8 cargo plane near Rancho Cordova, Calif., and that the work by a third party has been a focus of that investigation. The NTSB's John Goglia, a trained mechanic and a 35-year aviation-industry veteran, is concerned about some statistics that show an increase in serious accidents with maintenance as the primary cause...
DIED. ELY CALLAWAY, 82, golf-equipment innovator and founder of Callaway Golf Co.; of pancreatic cancer; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. Callaway's aim was simply to make golfers happy; to that end he designed more "forgiving" clubs, like the popular, oversize Big Bertha driver, which he introduced in 1991. In 1999 he launched the controversial ERC driver, banned by the U.S. Golf Association for exceeding the limit on the so-called springlike effect (how far the club head rebounds after striking the ball) but soundly endorsed for recreation by golf's favorite son, Arnold Palmer...
...mentality that has us still going gaga over any whiff of royalty? Isn't it time both East and West stopped clinging to long outmoded values, such as inherited wealth and power, that are residual metaphors for divine right? It is time to kiss Camelot goodbye. KATHERINE E. KREUTER Rancho Mirage, Calif...
DIED. GEORGE MONTGOMERY, 84, film and TV actor known for cowboy roles in westerns such as The Cisco Kid and the Lady and Dakota Lil; of heart failure; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Married for 19 years to Dinah Shore, Montgomery appeared in more than 85 films...
...phrase can suddenly change his stripes? You didn't report that Barry Scheck offered to pay for a DNA test for McGinn, who was convicted of rape and murder. The fear of being caught with a wrong decision is what drives most politicians of any stripe. PHIL PARKINSON Rio Rancho...