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...total cost of the recall to about $30 million from an originally estimated $5,000,000, but that could be a small price for averting the sales slump that might be caused by safety fears. Last year Ford had to recall 220,000 Pintos after receiving reports that flash fires had occurred in the air filters of 100 of them, and when news of the trouble got out. Pinto sales briefly dropped...
...that allows a picture taker to see precisely the same image that eventually appears on film. Except for conventional focusing, the entire process is controlled automatically by a tiny system of integrated electronic circuits. For indoor pictures or where the light is poor, the camera uses a five-picture flash unit developed by General Electric...
...FLASH FOR FREEDOM! by GEORGE MacDONALD FRASER 287 pages. Knopf...
...couple of G.I.s popping open beer cans with Mama-san and her whores. Through the bead curtain, a hand lobs a lump of steel. Thump and roll. "Grenade!" Soldier scoops it up, hesitates in stupid disbelief. FLASH! BLAM! So begins-and 140 minutes later, in an almost exact replay, so ends-The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. Between these two unanswerable exclamation points, Playwright David Rabe strings the lifeline of the soldier, Pavlo; then on that cord he attempts to hang what he sees as the rags of national honor, bloodied by the Viet...
Fraser is so far best known as the spoofing inventor of Henry Paget Flashman (Flashman, 1969, and Royal Flash, 1970), the compleat bounder. He thus comes to the reivers with an acute understanding of unsporting behavior. It stands him in excellent stead. After Henry VIII defeated the Scots at Solway Moss in 1542, for example, the fleeing survivors were held for ransom by their own border countrymen...