Word: transportation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure, the son of a St. Petersburg lathe operator seemed no art lover, paused only briefly before Da Vinci's Mona Lisa in the Louvre. But he could not get enough answers when shown the fuselage of the British-French supersonic transport, Concorde, or a frog's heart preserved-alive-in a Grenoble laboratory. Whether reviewing an honor guard of skiing policemen in the Alps or placing a paternal arm around a hesitant American correspondent, Kosygin, 62, was always a relaxed guest. "If we are all together, there will be no more wars," he shouted...
Though industrial mishaps have nearly been halved in the past third of a century, and though stringent auto-safety standards will soon be put into effect (see U.S. BUSINESS), the U.S. still lacks prevention programs for private homes, public places, and forms of transport other than motor vehicles, where the great majority of nonfatal accidents occur. Moreover, says the Council (an offshoot of the National Academy of Sciences), the care that an accident victim can expect in most U.S. cities is too often inadequate. Ambulance service is frequently slipshod, with untrained personnel causing more injuries and deaths by careening through...
This week Kosygin heads south in the company of Premier Georges Pompidou for a tour of the show places of modern French industry, including the Concorde supersonic-transport plant in Toulouse and the nuclear-research center at Grenoble. By coincidence, his trip will take him through precisely those areas of France where De Gaulle is weakest and the left strongest. If Kosygin keeps on singing his praises, that, at least, will please De Gaulle...
...week's end though, BOAC, Air-India and Scandinavian Air lines System said that they were willing to match Pan Am's deal; other airlines will try to push through an industry wide plan along the same lines, at a meeting of the rate-setting International Air Transport Association in Rome next week...
...immediate future, of course, the big plum is the contest to build a U.S. supersonic transport. With the Government due to choose between the Boeing and Lockheed designs next January, Boeing's prospects got a lift last week. After ten U.S. and 20 foreign airlines responded to a secret Government survey of design preferences, the Wall Street Journal polled the lines on its own. "By a narrow margin," said the Journal, they favored the Boeing...