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...language operators and manufacturers have rarely heard before, the agency has indicated that G.M.'s Allison Division was careless in the manufacture of a propeller which tore loose on an airliner that crashed in Ohio last year (dead: 38) and has pointed to managerial sloppiness as the real root of a Frontier Airlines crash in Colorado in which the pilot and copilot, the plane's only occupants, died. At week's end, the safety board dispatched a special team to Texas to investigate the crash of a Braniff International Electra, with 84 aboard, during a heavy thunderstorm...
Whether the allied force of some 12,000 men would attempt to root out the North Vietnamese gunners dug into the hills above them remained to be seen. But, in any case, the allies are not likely to elect to stay in A Shau, given the weather and the number of men who would be tied down in de fending it. Instead, Operation Delaware aimed to even an old score for the men of the Special Forces who fell there in 1966-and to destroy all the equipment and tools of war the Communists have so painstakingly assembled...
...that he tends to yawn at the news that pesticides are threatening remote penguins or pelicans; perhaps he could do with some of the humility toward animals that St. Francis tried to graft onto Christianity. The false assumption that nature exists only to serve man is at the root of an ecological crisis that ranges from the lowly litterbug to the lunacy of nuclear proliferation. At this hour, man's only choice is to live in harmony with nature, not conquer...
...Knack is such an ingenuously nice play, expressing all the right sentiments, that you root hard for it to pull you in. To watch it stumble around is a terrible disappointment; hopefully, some of the stumbling can be corrected before it ends its week-long...
Lindsay said that the problems of the cities will only be solved by "attacking the root causes." These problems, he said, are "beyond the means of any single person to correct...