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...after Renault and Citroën), this week gets a new president: outspoken Georges Héreil, 53. He replaces fiery Henri Pigozzi, who founded Simca in 1934 and ruled it with an iron hand until Chrysler bought control of it this year. The former president of state-owned Sud Aviation, Héreil became a national hero for bringing out the successful Caravelle, but resigned last year after the government sharply trimmed his authority to call the shots in the joint Anglo-French effort to build a supersonic jetliner...
...involved. The sums are so big that, in the words of Northrop Corp.'s Chairman Tom Jones, "there has to be a purpose other than free enterprise." Three months ago, Federal Aviation Administrator Najeeb Halaby visited the plants of the Anglo-French consortium-British Aircraft Corp. and Sud-Aviation-and was shocked to see how far along the British and French were in building their needle-nosed Concorde jetliner, which will fly at Mach 2.2 (or 2.2 times the speed of sound). The market for a supersonic transport (or SST, as it is widely known) will at first...
Center of attraction at Britain's Farnborough air show last week was none of the fast new aircraft roaring overhead but an 11-ft. groundling: the first publicly displayed model of the 100-passenger, Mach 2.2 Super Caravelle that British Aircraft Corp. and France's Sud Aviation propose to build jointly. Though design of the delta-wing plane is completed and current plans call for flight tests in 1966, final approval of the project is yet to come from the British and French governments...
...neighborhood of $560 million. Some British planemakers say that the money would be better spent increasing the all-weather reliability of existing subsonic aircraft. But with U.S. planemakers working toward a Mach 3 airliner and Russian competition in supersonic air transport only a matter of time, BAG and Sud Aviation argue that the Super Caravelle is needed to assure Europe a continuing role in the long-haul civil aviation industry...
...Thursday's Brattle Street Forum, as the panel made predictions as to the future of French politics and the relations of France and Germany. Moderated by Samuel Beer, professor of government at Harvard, the panel included a Frenchman, Paul Fabra of Le Monde; a German Gunter Gaus, editor of Sud Deutsche Zettung: as well as Nicholas Wahl, assistant professor of government, Harvard; and Roy Macridis, professor of political science, Washington University...