Word: sst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supersonic transport, which, after a leisurely subsonic flight from Prague, touched down with its 26 tires threadbare from many high-speed landings. Though the Russian SST made its first test flight more than two years ago, it had not been previously exhibited for Westerners. It quickly became the star of the Paris show...
...than 44 tons or transporting 200 passengers. During French Premier Pompidou's opening speech, only a few officials on the speakers' platform appeared to be listening. Everyone else was gawking at the MIL-12 as it was towed gently into position next to the droop-nosed Russian SST...
...Administration was handed one defeat last week when the Senate voted 58 to 37 to reject an $85 million House appropriation for the SST. Helping persuade the Senate to take this action was none other than Boeing's board chairman, William M. Allen, who candidly admitted that it would cost between $500 million and $1 billion to revive the project...
...addition to those two "organizational" programs, Common Cause played a significant role in the defeat of the SST and is now actively lobbying for total withdrawal from Vietnam by December...
Last week's House appropriation must still survive the Senate, which last March voted 51 to 46 to cancel the SST. Senators may be more reluctant to reverse their ground. Anti-SST Senators were confident of defeating the new appropriation in a vote this week. If they do not, they will undoubtedly try to filibuster it to death...