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Breaking the Barrier. Myriad technicalities still face the Concorde-and eventually the SST-before it can go into commercial competition. One big potential stumbling block is the fact that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration must pass on the plane-and should it find the Concorde not air worthy, the French would surely complain that the FAA was dragging its feet to let the Boeing model catch up. The FAA is particularly wary of the fuel and noise problems. Four powerful Olympus engines consume great quantities of jet fuel, requiring reserves that will add weight and cut down on income. Just...
...mouth with myriad subtleties...
...charge of the myriad details of this week's wedding is the First Family's social secretary, Elizabeth Clements Abell, 34. Working from a sheaf of check lists and a mammoth plastic-covered map of the White House on which the nuptial traffic flow is charted with a grease pencil, Bess Abell has organized the operation down to the last hairdresser's appointment and millimeter of guest space (2 sq. ft. per person). The last White House wedding of a President's offspring was in 1914, when Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor married Treasury Secretary...
...tons of TNT for every person on earth. Efforts to harness the atom's illimitable energy for peaceful uses have been as humble as its squash-court birth. Despite glowingly optimistic predictions, the atom has remained little more than an experimental tool in medicine, mining and a myriad of other fields. Only now is nuclear energy beginning to prove its promise...
Oceanic End. Meanwhile, the debate over Viet Nam, though hardly running out of steam, seemed to be running out of ideas. Last week General Lauris Norstad, former NATO commander who now runs the Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., had a proposal for handling the myriad end-the-war proposals. "It is not my purpose to play the game of 'if I were President,' " Norstad told a Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce audience, "or to present a specific plan. The ideas are there, they have been presented. I urge that they be molded into a clear, positive, direct plan...