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Some of Schulman's music is so bad that one must conclude it is intentionally tacky. "Dig Right In" appears to be a take-off of those insipid chorus bits favored by the likes of Carol Burnett. But this attempt at satire fails because many of Schulman's other numbers are as insipid as those chorus bits he tries to satirize. Unless he has a specific objective--for example, to parody a '50s song as he does in "Mummy Knows Best"--his tunes slide into something reminiscent of a Burt Bacharach medley. The satire in the book, like the satire...
David Richard, an aviation planning specialist with the Federal Aviation Administration, said the jets must fly into the wind to get the "lift" they need for take...
...airplanes must be directed over Cambridge so they can take-off directly into the wind. David Nsabimana, a noise monitor and technician with Massport, said yesterday. They will continue on their present pattern until the frigid, 48-knot wind shifts or subsides, he said...
...pilot does not get the required lift he'll have to abort the take-off and if he's short on pavement he could run into some real problems," Richard said...
Nsabimana said he has seen jets turn over attempting to take-off heading in a direction other than directly into the wind...