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Granting of limited service to the Concorde SST [Jan. 19] would be akin to planting a small bomb in Times Square to see if its effect were boon or bane...
...Concorde may prove to be an environmental mistake and an economic disaster. But it may also prove to be relatively harmless and convenient, and a first step toward a new era in flight. The best way to decide whether it is a boon or a bane is to grant the Franco-British request for limited service...
...DRINK AS THE ACTOR'S BANE...
...first time in its 20-year history, the atomic power industry in the U.S. is fearful for its future. "Uncertainty is the bane of the nuclear industry," Carl Walske, president of the Atomic Industrial Forum, recently said. The fact that the industry does $10 billion worth of research, development and construction a year (not including the sale of almost 8% of the nation's electricity) hardly fazes Ralph Nader. Addressing an audience of nuclear critics in Washington, B.C., he confidently predicted that nuclear plant construction will be stopped in five years...
...Egyptians tried to cure it with the application of equal dollops of the fat of a lion, a hippopotamus, a crocodile and a serpent. "Ashes of little frogs, applyed suddenly, cureth the Fall of Hair," promised another early recipe. Through the receding centuries, man has tried to treat the bane of baldness with elm-tree bark, watercress, onions, creosote, cholesterol and cortisone...