Word: aero
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Aero-acoustics Expert William Meecham of the U.C.L.A. School of Engineering and Applied Science reports that people who reside within a 3-mile radius of Los Angeles International Airport have a 19% higher death rate than people who live six miles away. Most of the difference was in stress-related disease. Meecham's target group of about 80,000 people in the Inglewood and Lennox sections near the airport was compared with a control group similar in number, age, income and racial balance. The target group had 40% more fatal strokes and 140% more deaths from cirrhosis...
...block the Concorde from most airports. Moreover a strong threat arose last week that no more Concordes would ever be built. After a select committee of Parliament added up the staggering losses that the British government was likely to take on the present fleet (as much as $340 million), Aero space Minister Gerald Kaufman said that no more Concordes would be constructed unless there were profitable orders-which seems most unlikely...
...commitment to order 30 Lockheed TriStars (with options for 20 more). Since the TriStar was the one plane that could use Rolls-Royce RB-211 engines-and therefore the plane on which the Tory government's efforts to bail out bankrupt Rolls-Royce's aero-engine program depended-it seems unlikely that Lockheed would have to bribe government officials into backing the purchases. A Labor M.P. called for a parliamentary investigation, but no one else took up the issue...
...Queen of the Night, arrives in a cloud of darkness and swirling smoke, surrounded by a small zoo of reptiles and other phantasmagoric creatures played by dancers. The staging of the final battle between the Christians and the Saracens is a novel affair that can only be called aero-choreography: dancers and acrobats pirouette, somersault, tumble and flip high above the stage in stylized but effective combat. All the while, Home, as Rinaldo, looks on from atop a grim, menacing war machine. It is a memorable image...
Much of the credit goes to Managing Director David Plastow, 42, who was named head of the new management group that launched the motor division as an independent firm after its aero-engineering parent went under. Plastow says that the breakup of the old company was the best thing that ever happened to its motorcar division because "too many workaday decisions - including every aspect of pricing - had to be referred to the old company...