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...President had good reason to feel optimistic about industry's antipollution efforts last week as he stood on the White House lawn watching two TWA jets take off from Washington National Airport. As a Chicago-bound 727 soared over the Potomac, the ship's Pratt & Whitney engines gushed black smoke, smearing the blue sky like a grease pencil. Two minutes later an Indianapolis-bound 727 with the same type of engines followed suit-but without trailing any visible wake. "That's quite a difference," Nixon beamed to TWA Chairman Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. standing beside him. "That...
Actually, the secret was that Rolls had been unrealistic enough to become a sitting duck. In its eagerness to underbid its U.S. competitors (General Electric and Pratt & Whitney), Rolls accepted a fixed price for an engine that demanded technological breakthroughs to produce-and this in an inflationary age. It also committed itself to deliver all the engines by November 1971 or pay stiff penalties. The penalty provisions have never been disclosed, but are believed to oblige Rolls to pay up to $300 million -more than 60% of its last reported net worth. Presumably, the penalties rise as deliveries become later...
Holding his face, Briggs called for a let; but Page said, "No, I'll take the point," and walked off the court. Almost at the same moment, both Andy Wiegand and Lowell Pratt at seven and nine completed three-game sweeps and clinched the team victory...
Reggie Foster, Neil Vosters, and also Lowell Pratt at number ten, easily swept their matches, indicating the depth on the Crimson ladder...
...impassioned if irrelevant time-filling defense of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by Lawrence Hogan, a Maryland Republican. The act was not signed by the President until two hours after the 12:01 a.m. Thursday deadline. Later, in nearby Chevy Chase, Md., U.S. District Court Judge John H. Pratt was rousted out of bed; still in his pajamas, he signed a no-strike injunction...