Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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France and Britain are already far along in their $500 million program to develop their own supersonic airliner, the needle-nosed Concorde. Last week, in a surprise turnabout, the British and French state-owned airlines-BOAC and Air France-placed six orders apiece for the rival U.S. supersonic transport. Though the exact design of the American SST has not yet been determined, the plane will definitely be bigger and faster, and will have a longer range than the Mach 2.2 Concorde. The British-French move not only gave a heartening boost to the U.S. project but stirred new doubts about...
...Argentina is wealthy, 92% literate, has relatively good transport and communications systems-and chronic political problems. The government, backed by the military, which threw out the previous freely elected President, has strong nationalistic leanings-some State Department officials are worried that the country could turn to isolationism. The party of exiled Dictator Juan Perón is still a force, but the strength of Castro Communism has declined...
...books strapped to his head because he lacked boat fare. During India's struggle for independence, Shastri spent a total of seven years in jail, once fasted so long that his weight dwindled to 72 Ibs. He entered the Cabinet in 1952 as Minister for Railways and Transport, a decade later became Home Minister and Nehru's "architect of compromise." In the last two general elections, he ran the Congress Party's victorious campaign machinery, good training for high positions. Modestly, Shastri insists that he has never sought public office, but admits, "I am not a Sanyasi...
...stacks of documents were the entries of three of the nation's leading planemakers-Boeing, Lockheed, and North American Aviation-in the biggest design competition in the history of U.S. civil aviation. At stake is the Government contract, worth at least $750 million, to build a supersonic transport...
...gloom of empty shops and echoing streets, the sight of bright, gift-laden visitors seared like acid. West Berliners found their Eastern kin far more outspoken against the Ulbricht regime than they had been before the Wall went up. In fact, workers at East Berlin's municipal transport company, BVG, demanded that the pass agreement not only be extended but expanded to permit East Berliners to visit their relatives in the West...