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Progenitor of the aerotrain is 49-year-old Engineer-Designer Jean Berlin, who in August 1965, after eight years at the drawing board, received a $600,000 grant from France to build and test his invention on a 31-mile stretch of unused railroad track between the villages of Gometz and Limours. Bertin, who already had the backing of a $1,000,000 company made up of 18 industrial giants such as the French National Railroads, Nord Aviation and Hispano-Suiza, ripped up the standard-gauge track between the two somnolent towns, replaced it with a concrete monorail shaped...
...Before a jury consisting of experienced circus players, the director of the technicum, pedagogs, sport instructors, and representatives of GOMETZ [the Soviet State Trust of Musical Estrade and Circus Enterprises], each applicant has to show what stunts he or she can do. The final decision rests with the jury...
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