Word: feds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though, he is optimistic. The Concorde project is in financial trouble, and there is a chance that either Britain or France will pull out, providing a reasonable excuse for the U.S. to drop its own version. And there is the boom itself. "More and more people are getting fed up with it," Shurcliff comments, referring to boom tests being conducted over selected cities. He has received only four letters in favor of sonic booms--one from a man who wrote that the loud noise "made him proud to be an American." League members are urged to write their Congressmen...
...note that Americans have remarkably little hatred or fear of their enemy in Viet Nam. It is hard to hate people who are so fed up with fascist governments and foreign intervention that they are able to carry on with stolen and imported weapons and men against the most sophisticated weaponry that U.S. money can buy. "Hatred" doesn't fit; "respect" might be closer to the mark. It might be easier to work up some fear of Ho Chi Minh if he were leading a platoon of Viet Cong down the main street of Honolulu...
Answers in Part. What accounts for labor's militancy? One reason is prosperity. In a time of low unemployment (now 3.8%), the worker commands a premium. Other goads are inflation and ever rising local and state taxes-not to mention the threat of a new 10% fed eral surtax (see following story). In their drive for higher wages, union members are rejecting one-seventh of the contracts accepted by their leaders...
...Manhattan, American Airlines disclosed that Astrolog recorders would soon be installed on 20 of its BAC-111 jets. Converting electrical impulses from transducers at tached to the plane's instruments and equipment into 0-to 5-volt signals, Astrolog will record them on a tape that will be fed into a computer. From the data, the computer will define such indi cations of pilot performance as bank angles, speed in turbulence, sink rate and even use of the public-address sys tem. It will also spot any unsafe maneuvers or actions and print out "exception reports" that the airline...
...Fed's idea is simply to pressure banks into refusing to accept uncoded checks as too slow and costly to collect. So far, the only notable effect has been some informal choosing of sides over the whole question of uncoded checks. Out in Las Vegas, Caesar's Palace was quick to announce that casino customers were welcome to use them as usual. On the other hand, saloon keepers and merchants, who often find that a universal check is made of rubber, are just as eager to stretch the law. "Sorry," cashiers at an A. & P. store in Atlanta...