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While the Air Force insists that electronic flight-control circuits inside its aircraft are shielded against radar and radio emissions, it closed the radar station completely during a precision-flying exhibition in November by its Thunderbirds aerobatic team. Several Army BlackHawk helicopters have crashed when their pilots flew too close...
Wurman's prescriptions are sound enough: be a good listener, be a contrarian, avoid gratuitous precision, avoid cliches. He also makes some more or less fresh points: that all information is inherently selective and subjective, and that the mind is not an ultra-complicated computer but a place full of...
The flight of Apollo 8 accomplished ten revolutions around the moon, and ended with an uneventful splashdown in the Pacific. It was a marvelous Christmas gift to the human race -- and especially to the U.S., battered by war, assassination and domestic strife. For the first time, men saw the entire...
Gerolmo took the idea to his friend Frederick Zollo, an off-Broadway producer-director, who sold it to Orion. Several directors were proposed -- Milos Forman, John Schlesinger -- before Orion suggested Alan Parker, 44. His films (Midnight Express, Fame, Birdy) resist classification by content, but in style they are as easy...
Can the Fed restrain the economy without choking it? Says John O. Wilson, chief economist for Bank of America: "The Fed is in a real bind right now. It is going to have to walk a tightrope. And if it doesn't act soon, the financial markets will lose confidence...