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...from each downtown area. Local boosters are spending over half a million dollars to inaugurate the Dallas/Fort Worth airport, climaxing this week with a four-day Texas bash of balls, banquets and barbecues. Among the scheduled guests are President Nixon, officials from 48 countries, and a British-French Concorde SST...
...damaged flight recorder. Most experts blame Koslov for trying to force the TU-144 through maneuvers better suited to a fighter than an airliner. The real question, though, was not what caused the disaster but what effect it would have on the development of the SST. The French and British have had scant success in selling their enormously expensive Concorde (cost: $46 million apiece). The Russians clearly had hoped that the Paris show would boost the TU-144, which is not only cheaper ($23 million including spare parts) but also more economical to operate. That hope went down with...
...plane builders grumble that they also face rough competition in the form of vast financial support granted by European governments to aerospace projects abroad. At the same time, the SST cancellation and severe slowdowns in space projects have taught the U.S. aerospace industry that Washington can be a fickle customer. Most firms have sought to minimize their reliance on Government-and in fact on the whole wild blue yonder-by pushing diversification programs that range from a Rockwell International venture into industrial knitting machines to Boeing's experiments with alfalfa production...
...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...
...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...