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...year-old vote; the group sparked a heavy write-in campaign, lobbied on Capitol Hill and organized ratification coalitions and lobbies in many state capitols. Though Gardner asks for no special credit, Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin commended Common Cause for its help "in rallying opposition to the SST and winning the fight...
...Nixon Administration officials placed calls around the country to sympathetic bankers and industrialists. Those men, in turn, phoned their Congressmen and urged them to vote for the bailout. Machinists and scientists bought newspaper ads. Aerospace workers, some of whom lost their jobs after amateur lobbyists effectively organized an anti-SST drive last spring, rallied to Lockheed's side. They launched letter-writing campaigns, made speeches to P.T.A.s, even organized a boycott of Wisconsin cheese and beer to put the heat on Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, chief opponent of the Lockheed rescue...
...attended the TIME/ 747 Conference in Seattle, where most of them got their first glimpse of the awesome jumbo jet. The following winter TIME flew a similar group to Bristol, England, and then to Paris for a peek at the Concorde and a seminar on the future of the SST...
...first, the Soviets grabbed the headlines with a dazzling array of new aircraft, especially the TU-144 supersonic jetliner. But when the Paris Air Show got into full swing last week, the French crowds were flocking to see a competing SST, the Anglo-French Concorde. If the Western European jet makes its commercial debut in 1974 or 1975, it will be the first supersonic liner in regular service. TIME'S Paris bureau chief, William Rademaekers, went to Le Bourget Airport to look at the Concorde, and was invited to become one of the first journalists to ride...
...asked myself: As a paying passenger, would I want to fly in an SST, even at the expected premium price of 30% above regular economy class? The answer was yes. It was not a quick or easy yes, nor would it apply on the routes I fly most often, such as the North Atlantic. But given the opportunity to avoid a 14-hour flight to Asia, I would bend strongly in the direction of the SST. "This is a normal plane that will get you there in half the time," a French aerospace official said. Why should we want that...