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...copilot, Air Force Colonel Joseph Cotton, 44, knew something was amiss with their landing gear. Pursuit jets monitoring the flight reported that one of the two tires on Cecil's forward gear had blown and the entire assembly was jammed against the partly open doors of the wheel cavity. A computer governing the gear's operation had malfunctioned, causing the doors to start closing before the gear had fully retracted. One door had knifed into a tire, and the entire mechanism was locked in an inoperative position. Inability to free it would leave the pilots no choice...
Since it was established in 1899, Fiat, the second biggest automaker in Europe and the fifth biggest in the world, has had only two chairmen: Founder Giovanni Agnelli and, since 1945, Vittorio Valletta. Last week, at the age of 82, Valletta turned the wheel over to Gianni Agnelli, 45, grandson of Fiat's founder and a charter member of the international...
Calisher plots, obviously, do not readily synopsize-like boiled water, they leave no residue. But the reader can enjoy a Calisher journey even though, like her trolley line, it ends up nowhere. The Calisher ear for words is poetical, and sometimes the click of wheel on track forms recognizable rhythms: "The spirit of picnics and cemetery visits is always feminine...
...reproductions of the 1920s' doorless Mercedes-Benz SSK Roadster under the name Excalibur SSK, has added a four-seat Mercedes Phaeton. Price: around $7,500. The classic American Cord has returned as a scaled-down convertible (four-fifths original size) that, like its predecessor, comes with front-wheel drive. Included in the $5,950 price: a one-way plane ticket to the factory in Tulsa, Okla., where the customer picks...
...sympathetic witness in a congressional hearing. Calling for strict Government safety regulations for trucks as well as cars, Hoffa said: "If you leave it to somebody's discretion to pass minimum safety standards, there wouldn't be any standards." He also showed a film plugging a fifth-wheel device for trucks, which he said would prevent many jackknifing accidents...