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That was "in 1959. The product of that decision was the SST project now rejected by the Congress. Hannifin, still TIME'S Washington-based aviation correspondent, had followed the program closely from its birth to its death and was in a perfect position to report on Washington developments for this week's cover story and related articles on the SST. He has firsthand familiarity with more than the politics and economics of the issue. Flying is Hannifin's hobby as well as his journalistic specialty. He has piloted a variety of military and civilian aircraft, from fighters...
From the West Coast, Los Angeles Bureau Chief Don Neff covered the impact of the SST decision on the ailing aerospace industry. He has followed the field since 1965, when he did the reporting for a cover story on a Mariner space shot. Of the aerospace business, Neff says: "I feel as if I saw the best of it, the challenge and the drama, and now the sadness...
PROPOSALS for Government funding of an American supersonic transport date back ten years-the same amount of time Senator William Proxmire has spent opposing it. From 1961 to 1969, Proxmire engaged in five losing campaigns against SST appropriations. He has filibustered and conducted hearings, hammering away in a personal crusade against the "perfectly trivial purpose of developing an SST, seeing how rapidly we can already fly people overseas." It was the kind of tenacity that has made Proxmire the bane of defense contractors, pork-barreling colleagues and consumer frauds...
...pushed a truth-in-lending bill through the Senate that had languished for four terms. He uncovered the $2 billion cost overrun on the C-5A and defense contractors' hiring of former high-ranking military officers. Finally, he is close to success in his fight against the SST...
...SST fight goes down to its final stage, Proxmire's groundwork is largely done. Testimony of economists and environmentalists is already in, and the body of information he has developed against the plane over the years is well known to his colleagues. He does not wring votes from fellow Senators with deals and high-pressure promises, as members of the club would do, but he relishes the upcoming battle for the final handful of votes: "It's going to be a goddam interesting week...