Word: coleman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hurrying away from testifying before the House Appropriations Committee, he borrowed 150 from an aide and dialed a private number from a phone booth. Then Secretary of Transportation William T. Coleman Jr. announced his decision to President Gerald Ford: he would let the British-French supersonic Concorde fly into and out of Washington and New York City, but only on a limited experimental and tightly controlled basis...
...Ahead. The decision was entirely Coleman's, and the way he made it-and announced it-was typical of the feisty and independent approach he has taken to the nation's transportation problems since becoming Secretary last March. Coleman never even discussed the Concorde in detail with Ford or his aides. The President was pleased to allow someone else to handle the politically nettlesome question. So anxious was Coleman to keep his report secret that he had arranged to call the President only 20 minutes before the press conference at which he revealed his plan. Ford gave...
...Coleman announced that the U.S. would allow Air France to fly two round trips a day from Paris to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and one round trip to Dulles International, 20 miles outside Washington...
...months-long enough, he said, to determine whether the advantages of developing supersonic flight across the North Atlantic were outweighed by the damage the Concorde might do to the environment and the distress it could cause to people on the ground. If the flights created any serious problems, Coleman said, they would be stopped "forthwith...
...blowout forced the cancellation of several programs scheduled for the weekend, including a Miles Davis Orgy, a seven-hour New Orleans Blues Orgy, and a Coleman Hawkins jazz program...