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Although hovercraft are still a novelty in North America and in most other parts of the world, they are becoming familiar in Britain, where they work as ferries between coastal resort towns and ply the cross-Channel route between England and France. Experimental military and civilian hovercraft skim along waterways and across marshes in Britain. And the hovercraft principle of using a thin layer of air to move heavy loads is finding increasing applications in British industry and transportation...
...plumping for the "chunnel" (for channel tunnel), the committee rejected a proposed 21-mile cross-channel bridge. It would have cost twice as much, placed 164 dangerous steel-and-concrete pillars across the foggy Pas de Calais bottleneck which carries some 500 ships...
...English Channel. The British never quite forgot Napoleon's designs, and for a century and a half afterward British governments vetoed the idea of a Channel tunnel as a threat to England's island security. But Britain's decision to join the European Common Market brings to an end the historic British policy of "splendid isolation" from the Continent. Last week, as British Transport Minister Ernest Marples flew to Paris to open the first Anglo-French talks on the subject since 1883, the question was no longer whether there ought to be a direct cross-Channel link...
Neither the British nor French government is as yet committed to either idea. They agreed last week to set up an intergovernmental committee to study the alternatives. As never before, economic realities now lend powerful support to demands for a Channel link. Cross-Channel transport of cars, which had been expected to rise by 30% in the past three years, actually rose 54%; where there were 5,750,000 cross-Channel passengers in 1957, current estimates are that there will be 11,400,000 in 1965. To handle this mounting load by present means, Britain alone would have to spend...
...hardly a triumph of personal leadership on either side. Macmillan had been pushed by a Britain ready to take the cross-Channel plunge long before its shivering Prime Minister even stuck a toe in the water...