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...m.p.h. vehicle that flies without wings astride a single concrete rail. The streamlined craft that keeps the grands-pères guessing is a half-scale experimental model of France's wheelless, one-car "aerotrain." After a year of tests, the French government just gave the go-ahead for construction of a full-sized model that will whisk 84 passengers down a 16-mile test run at speeds of up to 250 m.p.h...
...trial. This, of course, would need months to prepare-if it ever took place. Rumors spread that Charles de Gaulle might be less than happy to have the trial commence again, since Dlimi might name the anonymous high-ranking French officials who, according to trial witnesses, gave the go-ahead for French police and security agents to cooperate in catching Ben Barka for the Moroccans...
...also the overriding issue during Gromyko's 1-hour 45-minute talk with the President, and U.S. officials concluded from what was said that Moscow would like to see a settlement there, but will not lift a finger toward that end until Hanoi gives the go-ahead. Leaving the White House by the back door, Gromyko headed for the State Department for a shrimp and lamb dinner with Rusk. The talk centered on prospects for a nuclear-nonproliferation treaty. "Gromyko made it very clear," said one official, "that there will be no agreement, now or in the future...
...project aimed at providing a system of flying buses-bus pods toted by helicopter sky cranes-between Los Angeles International Airport and downtown. When an impasse developed between the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the U.S. Interior Department, Yorty personally intervened to negotiate a go-ahead on a nuclear-powered
BOAC wanted to commit $154 million toward the purchase of six Boeing 747s, the jumbo jet (up to 490 passengers) that will go into service in late 1969. The government gave BOAC a go-ahead. Already under fire because its British-made equipment has developed maintenance bugs, BEA asked that it be allowed to buy $224 million worth of Boeing 727s and 737s, both relatively short-range but highly economical jets. BEA got turned down cold...