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Environmental opponents of the Franco-British Concorde have long maintained that the 1,400-m.p.h. aircraft is simply too loud to use U.S. airports. That argument seemed very fragile early last week as the first commercial flights slipped quietly into Washington's Dulles International Airport. But then, the next...
Bird of Prey. The Concorde's arrival was amicable. Traveling light, with just 76 of its 100 passenger seats filled, the British Airways Concorde covered the distance from London to Washington in 3 hr. 52 min. and-after missing a light plane by a scant 400 ft.-slipped into...
To emphasize the high quality of French technology, he arrived for his six-day Bicentennial visit aboard a sleekly beautiful Concorde SST that had flown from Paris in a mere three hours and 37 minutes (only two days afterward, the Federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled...
The American view of Russia has been refracted over the last half-century through layers of repugnance, infatuation, loathing, horror, suspicion, complacency-and now, in doubts about détente, by suspicion again. It has run a course from Lincoln Steffens' fatuous "I have been over into the future...
Moscow was plainly surprised-and embarrassed. The Soviet press retorted weakly that Sadat's move was meaningless because the treaty was "paralyzed" in any case. There was no mention of the fact that only last month at the 25th Party Congress, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev had dismissed rumors of...