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...Medved on Sneak Previews. Meanwhile, Siskel and Ebert are frequent guests on the Tonight show and have mock-settled their differences in a basketball-shooting contest on Late Night with David Letterman. Movies now even make fun of them: in Hollywood Shuffle, two streetwise blacks review movies in a takeoff called Sneakin' in the Movies...
...bird's-eye view of the entire affair. As president of a company selling arms around the world, the retired two-star general provided aircraft and crews to ship weapons to Iran, accompanied former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane on his secret mission to Tehran, purchased short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft for the contras and was in charge of coordinating munitions drops for the rebels...
...A320 outsold its predecessors even before it was ready for commercial takeoff. The first models, which are now being assembled at the Toulouse production facilities of Aerospatiale, the French state-owned aircraft company, should be delivered by next spring. The A320's most impressive claim: the first fully computerized flight-control system. Among other things, the equipment prevents the plane from stalling or exceeding speed limits...
Rosenthal says "God only knows why they have seat belts in airplanes," and goes on to question their usefulness. Seat belts are an absolutely essential safety appliance in any airplane. During critical takeoff and landing maneuvers any one of a number of situations may occur requiring the crew to take emergency action resulting in rapid acceleration or deceleration. People not wearing seatbelts in such situations would certainly incur injuries through impact with bulkheads, seatbacks and even other passengers. Furthermore, during the enroute phase of flight, turbulence may be encountered which, besides just jarring the aircraft, can place...
During such a freefall unfastened objects such as food carts and Mr. Rosenthal may hit the cabin roof. For good reason, therefore, Federal Aviation Regulations require that airline passengers wear seatbelts during takeoff and landing and whenever the pilot, expecting of encountering turbulence, turns on the seatbelt sign. This isn't just "stuff I think"; it is stuff that every safe pilot and passenger knows. William E, Meyer, Jr, '88 President, Harvard Flying Club