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Your story on the Lear Fan turboprop plane, "Saga in Epoxy" [Nov. 15], was well researched and accurate. However, Bob Burch's expectation that the Lear Fan will be certified by the Federal Aviation Administration in the "summer of 1983" is based on unfounded optimism and lack of experience. If Burch's group is willing to put in an extra $200 million on top of the $90 million it has already invested, it might obtain certification...
...press coverage, the territory is more often called by its official label--South-West Africa--than by the native derivative it will supposedly assume when and if it gains its independence. The longer Western viewers think of it as South-West Africa, the more they tend to blur its saga together with that of South Africa--the nation which has held power in Namibia since 1920 under a League of Nations mandate, and which still refuses to relinquish the territory despite repeated World Court and United Nations demands...
...with the first movie, Airplane II's plot seems purely incidental: The saga continues as Ted the pilot (Robert Hayes) and Elaine (Julie Hagarty), now a computer operator, maintain their love for one another despite adversity. Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves and several others from the original provide the pilots and ground control technicians necessary to foul up the flight and embody running jokes. But placed in the nebulous future, this year's doom-bent flight takes places aboard a computer-controlled lunar shuttle, with a bow to 2001: A Space Odyssey...
...Studio (with, among others, Geraldine Page, Rod Steiger and James Dean). Then Warner Bros, offered him a long-term movie contract starting at $1,000 a week. Abruptly he found himself wearing what he called a "cocktail gown" and playing a Greek slave named Basil in a religious costume saga, The Silver Chalice. It was the sort of absurdity that Virginia Mayo used to appear in, and she was in it. Newman, who is self-conscious about his bony legs, was so abashed that, as he points out now with some glee, he refused to look at the camera. When...
Caro leaves Johnson shortly after he lost a 1941 election to fill a vacant Senate seat (overconfident of victory, he allowed an opponent to falsify more returns than he did) and headed off to war, a 33-year-old Navy officer. Thus, nearly 800 pages after this saga begins, L.B.J. has barely set foot on the Path to Power. Does the world really need another endless tome about Lyndon Johnson...