Word: atas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...risen to more than 400 a year; the air traffic problem would soon be compounded by the arrival of jumbo jets and the SST. Alarmed, the Air Transport Association in January started an urgent program joining six avionics manufacturers* in the search for a solution. Last week the ATA triumphantly anounced the payoff; the blueprint for a CAS that could make the skies as safe as a sailing pond...
Audaciously, ATA and IATA designated last week as "World Wide Baggage Week, 1967." Included in the festivities was some hard thinking by 140 national and international member airlines, aimed at showing today's traveler that the industry cares about his grey Samsonite. One matter under study was a plan for an automated baggage delivery system developed by Teletrans Corp. of Detroit. A $100,000 prototype of the system will be tested on Aug. 15, and can be operational at airports...
With that, the Russians decided to cool it and canceled Hines's scheduled appearances in Moscow, Leningrad and Alma-Ata, rerouting him to the industrial city of Krasnodar (pop. 312,000) and the Black Sea resorts of Batumi (82,000) and Sukhumi (70,000). The State Department protested the "arbitrary changes," but the Soviets, obviously afraid that Fatha would have too big an impact in the great cities, were adamant. They may have outsmarted themselves, because Batumi and Sukhumi at this time of year are often jumping-like the east coast of Florida in January...
Tough luck for Moscow, Leningrad and Alma-Ata. What swingers there will miss-and those in the provinces will hear-is a propulsive, inventive brand of piano that has been the wonder of the jazz world for nearly 40 years. In Russia, as everywhere, Hines has been playing with a gusto born of assurance. His left hand minds the shop while his right frolics on a freewheeling holiday. Eyes squinched in concentration, his yard-wide smile flashing like neon, he launches into daring improvisational flights that, however farflung, somehow always resolve themselves into patterns as precise and neatly interlocked...
...Olympic physicians from many countries are convinced that acclimation for longer periods, with standard training schedules, really works. The Russians trained at Alma-Ata (around 10,000 ft.) in Kazakhstan before going to Mexico City in October; now they are building improved Olympic training camps at Yerevan in Armenia. The Japanese have camps on Mount Nori-kura in the 8,000-ft. to 9,000-ft. range. The French are completing an $8,000,000 complex at Font-Romeu (6,100 ft.) in the Pyrenees, and, in a fine display of entente cordiale, they will let the West Germans train...