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...difficulty centers on the fan blades in the Pratt & Whitney JT9D-3A engines, which were put on early models of the 747. What is eerie about the problem is that it continues to occur even though Pratt & Whitney has supplied the airlines with new blades made of higher heat-resistant alloys. Pratt & Whitney is now sending to the lines a comprehensive "modification kit" that changes parts of the engine and converts it to the equivalent of the power plant used in the new 747s. These later-model planes have not had an abnormally high rate of blade failure. Trouble...
...Manhattan office of U.S. Attorney Whitney North Seymour Jr. hummed last week with the noises that prosecutors and crime reporters love to hear: Seymour announced three indictments in his continuing investigation of corruption in the enforcement-or non-enforcement-of narcotics laws. Then why was Seymour so unhappy? Because the suspects accused so far are minor figures (a junior detective, a bail bondsman's investigator, a lawyer). Far more important fish had slipped away, he charged, because of holes ripped in his net by the New York Times and Daily News. Seymour insisted that their premature stories had "substantially...
...have an artist make a car and call it his work of art? In 1966 a California sculptor named Don Potts set out to do exactly that. The result of his six years of labor, entitled My First Car, is on view this week at New York's Whitney Museum. It is not a car, to be precise, but a set of four components - a wooden mockup chassis, a chassis with engine, and two bodies, one of metal, the other of stretched glider cloth - all of which could theoretically be fitted together...
...decades, hot-rodders in California have been chopping and chroming cars into peachy-candy Baroque monsters; these are not officially held to be art because they are made by grease monkeys, not artists. The difference is merely one of classification and context: if it's in the Whitney...
From the panhandlers and hare Krishna drummers outside the Coop to bell-bottomed young professionals lunching upstairs at Barney's, from the little old ladies shopping for bedspreads at Woolworth's to the tight little knots of blue-collar worker who gather at Whitney's every night for a beer after work, Cambridge probably has as varied a population as any other six square miles in the country...