Word: transportation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Buenos Aires was still half asleep one morning last week when the military men who run the country made a crucial political move. From hot, muggy Martin Garcia Island in the River Plate 30 miles north of the capital, a military transport buzzed aloft carrying ousted President Arturo Frondizi, his daughter, his private secretary and 2½ tons of Frondizi's belongings, mostly books. A few hours later Frondizi alighted at San Carlos de Bariloche, a summer fishing and winter ski resort in the Argentine Andes, 850 miles southwest of Buenos Aires...
...weeks ago was one calling for joint research and development of conventional weapons. This seemed a promising clause, for experts from both nations already had spent years working together on various projects-e.g., antitank rockets developed at the French ballistic proving grounds at St. Louis, a big military transport plane designed to operate off short runways, a French-designed heavy helicopter. But the most important joint project in the works was the Europa Panzer, a medium tank; when first conceived, the idea was that it would replace the West German Bundeswehr's 2,000 out-of-date...
...violent private life; even Welles has seldom matched the visual bravura of The Trial. Much of the film was shot on one of the most spectacular sets a camera ever saw: the abandoned Gare d'Orsay in Paris. Once the great terminal was a cast-iron cathedral of transport. Now it is a colossal hunk of Victorian junk, a sagging cavern, dim and vast, that dribbles dainty stalactites of iron filigree: a world like Kafka's world, a dead world waiting for the wrecker's ball...
...will be more formidable. No U.S. company is prepared to risk the cost (estimated at upwards of $1 billion) of developing a supersonic jet unless the Government foots a big part of the bill-and so far the Government has shown little inclination to do so. A Soviet supersonic transport is expected within three or four years, and an Anglo-French consortium heavily subsidized by both governments is designing a supersonic liner. By aiming for a less sophisticated Mach 2.2 plane instead of the Mach 3 design favored by U.S. designers, it hopes to have a prototype ready...
Though conceding that the Soviet Union and the Anglo-French will fly supersonic jetliners before the U.S., Federal Aviation Administrator Najeeb Halaby nevertheless contends that "we will be the first to field the best supersonic transport." The trouble is that being last with the best may not be good enough. The U.S. is already far behind. Halaby has appointed a committee to look into Government sponsorship of a supersonic transport; he hopes to present such a plan to President Kennedy by summer. But the Administration's new budget calls for no funds for supersonic transports, and the only Government...