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...various ways ever since the R.A.F.'s primitive World War II efforts to burn away British pea-soupers by placing barrels of flaming fuel along airport runways. Yet, to the airlines' annoyance, the most promising ventures in the laboratory have often proved impractical at the airfield...
...problems notwithstanding - is not at all like Viet Nam. Last week Thai Communist guerrillas, who until now have confined their terrorism to ambush and intimidation in the countryside, challenged that notion with the kind of bold attack that has become routine in Viet Nam: a commando raid on an airfield...
...have sought as surcease from the hustle and bustle of modern-day life." Keating's decision was in line with a landmark 1946 ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court, involving a North Carolina farmer. He had sued the Government because the noise of military planes from a nearby airfield had reduced his chickens to a state of eggless nervous collapse...
...shuttle flight from New York to Washington. In the New York-New Jersey area, the Port Authority, which runs the airports, is spending $425 million to expand Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark airports and is meanwhile seeking a site for one more all-new superport. Boston also needs another airfield, whose cost will be over and above the $225 million now allotted to expand Logan International. Pittsburgh, with traffic up 25% in one year, has earmarked $11,800,000 for immediate expansion. Altogether, U.S. airports will spend at least $4.9 billion in the next ten years, but even that...
Acapulco, top Pacific Coast beach resort, has no less than 83 international jet flights each week. Even such a recently discovered beach resort as Puerto Vallarta, made famous by the film The Night of the Iguana, is now rushing to completion its own $3,300,000 jet airfield, installing the town's first dial telephones and nearly doubling hotel accommodations...