Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kraft also made certain that the Presi dent would have a bouquet of good news for his hosts, ensuring a welcome in a state where his popularity has been falling fast. Carter announced that Ellington Air Force Base, which was scheduled to be closed, will be taken over instead by NASA -thereby saving about 1,000 jobs in the Houston area. In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency will grant $6.4 million to expand a sewage treatment plant in Fort Worth...
...ending a twelve-day tour of Sweden's defense facilities. There they had looked at, among other things, Swedish-built submarines and the Saab-Scania supersonic Viggen fighter jet. This week the delegation heads southward to see what Italian manufacturers offer in the way of land, air and sea weaponry. A similar delegation of Chinese experts visited France last autumn to inspect materiel there...
...Chinese air force, for example, ranks behind only the American and Soviet in size, but comprises mostly various home-built versions of the MiG-19, a Soviet fighter of the 1950s based on now outdated technology. Facing the obsolescent Chinese MiGs are some of the Kremlin's hottest new war planes, including the high-flying MiG-25 Foxbat...
...caught off guard by the direction of Jazz, an unexpected anthology of tunes from Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, even the great Bahamian guitarist Joseph Spence. As the surprise wears off, though, and the rhythms become less remote, they will hear some of the loveliest, liveliest music in the air. Cooder, with band, gospel quartet and full orchestra, last week performed virtually the entire album at Carnegie Hall...
...best-or the worst-is still to come. As summer begins, Americans are taking to the air in unexpectedly high numbers. The airlines' forecast of an 8% to 10% traffic growth this year has been about 5 percentage points too low. Load factors, which ran at 54% last year, are climbing into the mid-60s. The outlook: the best year ever for U.S. lines, with revenues reaching $22 billion and earnings up $100 million, to $700 million. But passenger discontent is rising even faster. The Civil Aeronautics Board is receiving a record number of complaints. Departure delays, which totaled...