Word: hannifin
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TIME'S own aeronautics expert, Washington Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, contributed voluminously to this week's Skylab story, which was written by Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, and to Science Editor Fred Golden's accompanying report on space exploration. A licensed pilot and irrepressible space buff, Hannifin has been covering NASA since it was NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, until 1958). Recalls Hannifin: "We used to talk about the 'new' turbojet engines, and, gee whiz! a supersonic airplane even seemed possible." Over the years, he met Rocket Wizard Wernher von Braun, covered blast-offs from Cape...
Wallops Island, Va., and interviewed a universe of scientists and astronauts. To track Skylab, Hannifin returned to several old haunts: the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. But he was haunted by the sight of a souvenir displayed at the North American Air Defense Command facility near Colorado Springs: a 10-lb. container from a Soviet Soyuz that had hurtled through the atmosphere dangerously intact a few years ago, just as hundreds of Skylab chunks were expected to do this month. Said Hannifin: "That 'bottle...
...Also on Hannifin's mind was a sentimental visit he paid this year to an old friend: Baker, who along with the late Able became the first monkeynaut pair in 1959. Hannifin found Baker at NASA's space museum in Tranquility Base, Ala., playing with a plastic model of the space shuttle and living tranquilly while others venture ever deeper into outer space...
...advocate, is worried about one of its side effects: pressure on smaller carriers to seek mergers with bigger ones. Besides the Pan Am-National deal, at least two other mergers are in the talking stages, Continental with Western and North Central with Southern. In interviews with TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, Kahn said he would take a dim view of mergers that seem to amount to a search for "a security blanket." Potential merger partners, he added, would bear a "heavy burden" of proof that their union would not reduce competition...
Assertive and gregarious, Economist Kahn, a former Cornell University Professor, thrives on controversy. In an interview with TIME Washington Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, he argued that the airlines are excessively panicked by the prospect of being exposed to the full force of a competitive marketplace. "What I suspect is that there is a search for another security blanket now that the CAB security blanket is being removed," he says. Rather than harming the airlines, Kahn contends, deregulation will help many of them prosper. "We are making every carrier in this country a potential competitor of the other carriers by saying...