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Federal investigators said engine parts from Flight 427 indicate a potential cause of the accident: one or more of the components called "actuators," which help slow the plane's movement, may have been set off without a command from the cockpit. That action could have inappropriately reversed the thrust of the engines, causing the plane to roll off into a dive. The actuators are normally deployed to slow a plane down only after landing. USAir records show a flight crew reported problems with the plane's reverse thrust two and a half months earlier...
Though it was always a little hard to pin down, hip was a notion roomy enough to describe flower children in tie-dye as well as bikers in black leather, the impeccable cool of John Coltrane's sax as well as the jerky forward thrust of Abbie Hoffman. All of it was admissible on the principle that it represented a heartfelt rejection of the mainstream. The mainstream was understood to be all-powerful and wrong about everything: politics, art, religion, sex, drugs and music. It was deaf to the beat, blind to the truth and dressed by Penney...
...thrust and parry had a tone of urgency, it was because both sides were aware that the time to prepare their case was growing short. As expected, the judge set an early date for the opening of the trial: Sept. 19. No one could know for sure whether any more witnesses would turn up before then (Simpson was offering $500,000 for information that would prove his innocence), but the case may not turn on what people saw or didn't see. By the time of the trial, the court will have what is likely to be the most important...
...Adams: We are absolutely into a new phase. It might not quite be an irreversible thrust forward, but there is certainly a new situation. For all the parties involved there is a new attitude here...
...miles per hour at some points. Watch it and see. It's not for lack of Annie's driving abilities, of course--as a speed nut myself, I got very fond of Annie. She's as tough as any California girl not used to danger can believably be when thrust into maximum overdrive crisis...