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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Investigators suspect that the overheating in the first craft resulted from a cooling vent having been blocked by a crewman's flak jacket and bag. If so, that obviously was human error. The swirling sand, investigators say, could not have cracked the rotor blade in the second craft. The cause may never be known. The failure of the third chopper's pump also is a mystery and presumably could not have been caused by sand because the helicopters' hydraulic systems are well sealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Raging Debate over the Desert Raid | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

...uses the plainest of materials ? adobe, raw beams, cobbles ? to create astringently el egant effects. His commitment is not to community or social function but to privacy: "Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake. That is why it has been an error to replace the protection of walls with today's intemperate use of enormous glass windows." Many of his devices serve absolutely no function except visual delight; he thinks nothing of erecting a free standing wall simply to catch the shadow of a nearby tree. Where others speak of views, Barrag?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Master of Serenity | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

Skaff opened the bottom of the first by lining Jones's second offering into right center for a two-bagger. Rick Pearce reached on an error, Skaff trotted home on Kelley's sacrifice fly, and then everyone trotted home when Bingham launched his second roundtripper of the campaign over the rightfield fence...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Crimson Splits and Gains Title Share | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

From then on, Jones toiled like just another pitcher, albeit a tired one (he had thrown 170 pitches Tuesday and 30 more the previous afternoon). Five fifth-inning runs on an error, single, hit-by-pitch, two-run double and finally a three-run homer by Martelli (his second) put Harvard in front, 8-3, and Doyle--who relieved Larson with one down in the sixth--completed the final 1 2/3 innings without incident to seal the split...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Crimson Splits and Gains Title Share | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

...able to offer adequate counseling if he chooses to depend only on the information provided by the FDO. "If a proctor supplements the initiative with his own initiative, it is definitely enough," Porter says, adding, "The best training is having gone through it once. So much is trial and error...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: We Aim to Please... | 5/8/1980 | See Source »

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