Word: stillnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effect, shielded by a huge protective electronic bubble. When one plane's bubble brushes another's, it triggers successive alarms in both cockpits. The first comes 42 seconds before the moment of collision as calculated by the CAS's onboard computers. If the planes are still headed toward each other at 30 seconds, a flashing red light warns the pilots to prepare for evasive action. Five seconds later, the computers issue their final command. Depending on the relative positions of their planes, one pilot may be ordered to climb, the other to dive or stay level...
Since a trip to Mercury is still far off, Gold hopes for more immediate confirmation of his theory. An opportunity may come during the Apollo 12 mission in November. If the astronauts discover glazing of the same age in a different area of the moon far from Tranquillity Base, Gold says, he will be satisfied that such a solar catastrophe actually occurred...
...good reason: since the U.S. Supreme Court in 1963 outlawed devotional Bible reading in public schools, few U.S. school systems have offered Biblical studies of any kind. Justice Tom C. Clark's majority opinion in the Supreme Court decision made a point of recommending that the Bible should still be studied for its "literary and historic qualities," but that option is rarely exercised. Some diehard school districts in a few states still defy the court and teach an old-fashioned Protestant version of the Bible, but only four states, a handful of cities and some individual schools have attempted...
...Million a Plane. Yet the SST raises a troublesome question: what is its proper place in the scheme of national priorities? Granted that money saved by delaying the SST would not likely be spent in the ghettos, it is still debatable whether a supersonic transport is a better investment than, say, an aircraft that could take off and land downtown. Every previous generation of aircraft has been cheaper, safer and more comfortable than the one before, but the SST is only faster. It will be no more comfortable and no more economical to operate than the 362-passenger Boeing...
...like the jets before it, will lure more passengers into the air. A recent survey conducted for TWA revealed that two-thirds of all passengers responding would prefer to fly supersonically, and 56% would pay a premium of $50 to do so on a 2,000-mile flight. Still, each SST will cost more than most airlines earn in a single year. Even now, the airlines are stretching the tight money market to pay for the new generation of subsonic jumbo jets and airbuses, and smaller lines only wish that the SST would quietly go away for several years...