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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...
...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...
...SST issue similarly will carry over, since a Senate filibuster against the aircraft led by Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire proved effective in blocking a definitive decision to continue desired by Washington's Boeing-conscious Democrat Henry Jackson and other SST supporters. Overriding the objections of South Dakota Democrat George McGovern and other liberals, the Senate grudgingly accepted a House-passed food-stamp bill that disqualifies a family from the benefits if it includes an able-bodied adult who refuses to accept work...
...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...
...years, Boeing employment has plummeted from 101,500 to 46,800. By the end of 1971 it will probably sink to 32,500. It could go as low as 25,000 if the U.S. Senate goes through with its threat to cut off funds for Boeing's SST development program, a project that still employs 4,800 workers. The company has already sold one plant, closed another, auctioned off surplus equipment and furniture, consolidated assembly lines, cut its 747 jumbo-jet production from 7½ a month to 5. ∙ The Boeing cuts have given Seattle unemployment a rather...