Word: mache
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meekly labeled his next symphony "A Soviet Artist's Reply to Just Criticism." Now, in its first American recording, the Fourth is worth hearing mainly to find out what all the fuss was about. Whatever its polemic content may be, it sounds clumsily Mahlerian and full of papier-maché grandeur...
...than free enterprise." Three months ago, Federal Aviation Administrator Najeeb Halaby visited the plants of the Anglo-French consortium-British Aircraft Corp. and Sud-Aviation-and was shocked to see how far along the British and French were in building their needle-nosed Concorde jetliner, which will fly at Mach 2.2 (or 2.2 times the speed of sound). The market for a supersonic transport (or SST, as it is widely known) will at first be only 100 to 150 planes, and both U.S. and foreign airlines are naturally inclined to order the planes from the company that can promise...
...airframe makers to pool their skills, the result might give the airlines a plane whose performance and economy would make it worthwhile for the airlines to wait. The U.S. would still have to get its price right. According to current industry estimates, an American SST Mach 2 would cost about $12 million to $15 million apiece, while a Mach 3 would cost $20 million. The British and French are planning to sell the Concorde for less than $10 million. One difference is that the two European governments donated $500 million outright to develop the Concorde, while the U.S. government expects...
...private struggle with Congress and the Pentagon probably shaped its strategy as much, if not more, than any other factor. McNamara planned Skybolt's demise while still smarting from the attacks launched at him last spring when he had tried to stop development of the B-70, a Mach 2 superbomber. Primarily on the strength of the testimony of the Air Force's General Curtis Le May, Congress reprimanded McNamara's action and threatened to "direct" him to reverse himself. He eventually had to concede three B-70's to the Air Force...
...part of the bill-and so far the Government has shown little inclination to do so. A Soviet supersonic transport is expected within three or four years, and an Anglo-French consortium heavily subsidized by both governments is designing a supersonic liner. By aiming for a less sophisticated Mach 2.2 plane instead of the Mach 3 design favored by U.S. designers, it hopes to have a prototype ready by 1967 at a cost of only $450 million...