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...emphasize the high quality of French technology, he arrived for his six-day Bicentennial visit aboard a sleekly beautiful Concorde SST that had flown from Paris in a mere three hours and 37 minutes (only two days afterward, the Federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the supersonic jet could begin commercial service to Dulles International Airport this week on a 16-month trial basis). His lissomely beautiful wife Anne-Aymone was a movable feast of French high fashion, showing off no fewer than 14 Diors, Chanels, Courrèges and the like during their brief...
...outcome is too close to call. Environmentalists have vowed to mount the most intensive lobbying campaign since their defeat of the SST. Timber men, for their part, have set up "Monongahela Action Committees" to press for the Humphrey bill in every congressional district. Last week some 100 independent loggers drove their huge rigs to the Western Forest Center in Portland, Ore., and staged a mock funeral for their industry, thus dramatizing what they think will happen if Congress does not see the issue their...
...process. In his 1935 book, Our Wings Grow Faster, Loening predicted that "at 500 m.p.h. 50,000 ft. above the ocean . . . far above storms or ice or fog . . . we will cross from New York to London in six hours." He lived to see that prophecy improved on with the SST. But in his later years he urged less emphasis on speed and more on vertical-takeoff planes, which could cut travel time by operating from airports near city centers...
...supersonic transport plane (SST) will be proven unprofitable within a year, William T. Coleman, Secretary of Transportation, said last night...
...After a year, I think, the SST will be pulled out by the British and French," Coleman told about one hundred people in Science Center...