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...Port Authority's verdict could seal the fate of the 1,400-m.p.h. SST, which the French and British regard as a historic technological triumph. One French aviation expert warns that rejection by New York "would kill the Concorde." Concerned that the Port Authority was about to do just that, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing phoned President Carter last week to warn that banning Concorde could "provoke a very grave crisis in French-American relations...
...closing words of the evening news. Sci-Tech's promises for the future, far from being welcomed as harbingers of Utopia, now seem too often to be threats. Fears that genetic tinkering might produce a Doomsday Bug, for example, bother many Americans, along with dread that the SST's sonic booms may add horrid racket to the hazards (auto fumes, fluorocarbons, strontium 90) that already burden...
Deregulation Myth. Soon the SST will again be roaring around Adams: outgoing Secretary William T. Coleman Jr.'s 16-month test of the Concorde's landing and takeoff sound levels and other environmental effects at Dulles Airport near Washington, D.C., expires next summer. It will be up to Adams to decide if the flights are to continue...
...bibulous, bubbly bliss will be made possible this Dec. 31 by the su- personic Concorde. Bacchanals will be able to toast in 1977 at three strokes of midnight-in Paris, above the Atlantic and in Washington. They will get ready for their triple tipple by flying the Air France SST from Washington to Paris the night of Dec. 29. The celebration will begin with the first three courses of a New Year's Eve dinner at the Inter-Continental Hotel, followed by the first toast to la nouvelle année at Charles de Gaulle Airport just before...
This finding adds fertilizer to the growing list of substances though to be harmful to the ozone layer, including SST exhaust, freon and related compounds and the agricultural gumigant methylbromide...