Word: sst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...width. The Administration looked to the Supreme Court to get around that legal scruple, but last week the court refused to review a lower-court decision upholding the law. Now the pipeline proposal will be bucked to Congress, where it may create as big a furor as the SST...
Richard Nixon has never been able to count American scientists among his most enthusiastic supporters. In recent years, some of his own scientific consultants have publicly criticized him for his use of defoliants in Viet Nam, his support of the supersonic transport (SST) and his campaign for the Safeguard anti-ballistic-missile system. But the President does not seem to be listening. Administration policies, says the Federation of American Scientists, have left "the scientific community with an ever greater feeling of frustration...
...addition, he may eliminate the White House Office of Science and Technology and the President's Science Advisory Committee. The 20 scientists of that committee provided technical expertise when they were asked for it, and occasional criticism even when they were not-as in the case of the SST. As a result, for the first time since the Russians launched Sputnik 1, the nation's scientists have no direct voice in the inner councils of the White House...
...than satisfactory even before Nixon's recent budgeteering. The last Presidential Science Adviser, Edward E. David Jr., who resigned last month after 2½ years of service, admits that he never saw the President more than twice in any single month. Furthermore, in promoting controversial schemes like the SST, Nixon has tended increasingly to bypass the White House science staff, preferring instead to work through his technology counselor, William Magruder. Thus Nixon's latest moves hardly come as a surprise to scientists. Says M.I.T. President Jerome Wiesner, who was President Kennedy's science adviser: "The reorganization simply...
Died. Andrei N. Tupolev, 84, grand old man of Soviet aviation and developer of the TU-144, SST rival to the British-French Concorde; of heart disease; in Moscow. A quiet, portly intellectual, Tupolev predicted in 1922 that aviation's future lay in all-metal planes, then began designing almost one a year. Despite his productivity and a long list of aviation records, his defense of a friend during purges of the 1930s earned him Stalin's wrath-and a five-year stay in prison. Released during World War II, Tupolev achieved one of his greatest technical triumphs...