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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...search for the cause of the DC-10 crash could be long and costly. Investigators, for example, are trying to determine just what effect the years of jolting landings and high-stress takeoffs have had on the key metal parts that hold the engine and pylon to the wing. They are even studying the possibility of "acoustical fatigue," the damage to metal that can be caused by oscillations of sound frequencies generated by the DC-10's engine and its associated metal structures. More than 100 FAA investigators are working with McDonnell Douglas to find the reasons...
...search for solutions as America loses ground...
...Whole Truth. His Dean-like character, walking into a televised Senate hearing, "had no awareness of moving the parts of his body. He rolled on wheels, pulled by a string." Ehrlichman dwells too much on describing the furnishings of the capital's most notable drawing rooms, apparently in search of credentials as a serious novelist. Yet he knows Washington intimately enough to lure the reader along, even into that "double bed" above the Attorney General's office, which had been "the historic scene of demanding if unofficial activities of Smythe's predecessors, their high-ranking brothers...
...week following the attack, says the OTA report, those living near the targets would be "in a state of shock, with their lives disrupted and further drastic changes inevitable ... People would face many immediate tasks: care of the injured, burial of the dead, search and rescue, and fire fighting." A major problem would be the treatment of the tens of thousands of third-degree burn victims. At present notes the report, the combined facilities of all U.S. hospitals can treat no more than 2,000 cases of severe burns...
...bright morning last March, a force of FBI agents and state officials swarmed into his Tucson home with search warrants as the don, still in pajamas, looked on helplessly. They went directly to the secret paneled buco, or hiding place, in his bedroom and fished out 250 pages of his memoirs. State agents quickly photocopied them. Bonanno became so agitated he threw...