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...crash raised a new storm of scan dal over what is already the most controversial warplane ever built. After the first two crashes, both of which occurred in the first week of combat, the Air Force grounded the F-111. Though it failed to find the first plane, the Air Force did recover the wreckage of the second. After sifting through the twisted parts, its investigators declared that the cause of the crash was a $1 tube of sealant that had been left behind, apparently by a careless mechanic. Somehow, it had worked its way into the automatic flight mechanism...
...wrong man, nor Godard, who fails as a satirist because his preening pupils, full of the pop and pap of the New left, are already a satire on themselves. Despite sonorous allusions to such major artists as Brecht, Goethe and Dostoevsky, La Chinoise is only, like its subject, scan-deep: dazzling on the surface and virtually vacuous beneath...
...central Brazil. Seventeen radio stations keep the bank's executives in constant touch with remote offices. While most of Brazil's musty banks know where they stand only two or three times a month, Bradesco directors in the 13-story headquarters building in the City of God scan yesterday's balance sheets with their morning coffee...
...cameras is equipped with an eagle-eye Questar lens, can scan the full sweep of a ski run from its aerie on a mountain top. Other miniature cameras are installed in skiers' helmets and on sleds to provide a kind of rumble-seat view of the courses. To coordinate the com plex operations of ABC's crew, which at 250 strong is more than twice the size of the U.S. Olympic team, the network maintains a command post that suggests that the invasion of Normandy is imminent. Day and night, the center dispatches the network's four...
...chart-covered offices of banks, brokerages and mutual funds, computers constantly scan the stock lists to spot companies or entire industries that appear to be breaking out of their usual earnings pattern. Once an uptrend is noted, word quickly gets around; analysts go to the same meetings, tend to eat at the same places. They constantly talk with each other on local or long-distance phones. Brokerage houses also pass on their research findings to mutual funds and other institutions in hope of landing their enormous commission business. Says an officer of one Boston-based mutual fund: "A stock often...