Word: sst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George B. Kistiakowsky, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, publicly urged last week that Congress defeat the Nixon Administration's proposal for a supersonic transport, saying that the SST would be an "appallingly bad use of the taxpayers' money...
...letter to Rep. Henry S. Reuss (D-Wis.), Kistiakowsky, a former adviser to President Eisenhower, said that the SST "could not be used by the majority of the people" in the United States. He added that the expense of tickets on the airplane and the inability of the SST to fly short distances mean that only the rich will be able...
...SST would jeopardize the environment, Kistiakowsky said, because its "sonic boom" would create noise pollution and the huge amounts of kerosene required as fuel threaten the atmosphere...
...SST. Perhaps prudently, Nixon in his State of the Union address did not men tion the supersonic transport. The last Senate voted against it, the new House seems to be leaning that way, and the plane may be permanently grounded...
...Government's predilection to do as much as possible in secrecy also affects domestic issues of fairly direct concern to the taxpayer. Environmentalists opposed to development of the SST, for example, have had difficulty gaining access to the so-called Garwin report, which is critical of the supersonic transport; the Justice Department claims that the report is a "presidential document" and thus not subject to forced release. Preparation of a national inventory on industrial wastes discharged into public waterways was blocked for seven years by the Budget Bureau under terms of a 1942 law designed to protect business from...