Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suspicion pointed early to No. 12 cylinder, whose barrel had broken clear through. The CAB men sent the cylinder parts to the National Bureau of Standards, where laboratory examination showed several small fatigue cracks that had joined to form a single large crack one-third of the way around the cylinder. The steel itself proved sound, with no microscopic abnormalities that might have caused the cracks. So there must be other culprits...
...suspicion pointed straight at the airline's inspectors at Tulsa. American Airlines' own rules require that any cylinder found with more than two studs broken must be scrapped or sent back to the manufacturer (in this case Pratt & Whitney), because such a failure indicates that the base may be warped. Another rule requires that the base flanges of all cylinders going through overhaul must be inspected for flatness with delicate instruments...
...wrote afterward: "I had very little by way of visual hallucination, but what I consider the important thing was that ... I was dissociated, plagued, pounded, weighted-all these are inadequate to describe the horrible state I was in, all of them put together. Perhaps the central thing was suspicion and fear that you would find out about me, or perhaps think things that were not true...
...Video Theater (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC). Suspicion, with Louis Hayward, Kim Hunter...
...claimant was Joao Cafe Filho. who went on sick leave early in November when he suffered a mild heart attack. During his illness he was succeeded, in rapid order, by 1) Chamber of Deputies Speaker Carlos Luz. who was promptly ousted by Teixeira Lott on suspicion of favoring the golpistas, and 2) Senate President Nereu Ramos, no golpista. After Luz meekly accepted his dismissal, Cafe Filho suddenly decided that he felt well enough to take over again. Last week Teixeira Lott called on him at a Rio nursing home, hinted that the army might let him return if he would...