Word: sst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bibulous, bubbly bliss will be made possible this Dec. 31 by the su- personic Concorde. Bacchanals will be able to toast in 1977 at three strokes of midnight-in Paris, above the Atlantic and in Washington. They will get ready for their triple tipple by flying the Air France SST from Washington to Paris the night of Dec. 29. The celebration will begin with the first three courses of a New Year's Eve dinner at the Inter-Continental Hotel, followed by the first toast to la nouvelle année at Charles de Gaulle Airport just before...
This finding adds fertilizer to the growing list of substances though to be harmful to the ozone layer, including SST exhaust, freon and related compounds and the agricultural gumigant methylbromide...
...emphasize the high quality of French technology, he arrived for his six-day Bicentennial visit aboard a sleekly beautiful Concorde SST that had flown from Paris in a mere three hours and 37 minutes (only two days afterward, the Federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the supersonic jet could begin commercial service to Dulles International Airport this week on a 16-month trial basis). His lissomely beautiful wife Anne-Aymone was a movable feast of French high fashion, showing off no fewer than 14 Diors, Chanels, Courrèges and the like during their brief...
...outcome is too close to call. Environmentalists have vowed to mount the most intensive lobbying campaign since their defeat of the SST. Timber men, for their part, have set up "Monongahela Action Committees" to press for the Humphrey bill in every congressional district. Last week some 100 independent loggers drove their huge rigs to the Western Forest Center in Portland, Ore., and staged a mock funeral for their industry, thus dramatizing what they think will happen if Congress does not see the issue their...
...process. In his 1935 book, Our Wings Grow Faster, Loening predicted that "at 500 m.p.h. 50,000 ft. above the ocean . . . far above storms or ice or fog . . . we will cross from New York to London in six hours." He lived to see that prophecy improved on with the SST. But in his later years he urged less emphasis on speed and more on vertical-takeoff planes, which could cut travel time by operating from airports near city centers...