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...biggest boosters are all too well aware, it is on the ground that 747 passengers will find what Halaby calls "a surface-transport gap, a hotel gap and a parking-lot gap." There is also that conspicuous airport gap. The 747 can land in the same length of runway as a 707, but its sheer size makes many other changes necessary. The only airport in the world that claims to be fully prepared for the 747 is Paris' Orly, which has already built one separate terminal and has another under way. By June, London's Heathrow will be the second...
Perhaps the most surprising fact about the 747 is that the plane that promises to accomplish so much actually began its existence as a loser. In 1964, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara ordered a competition for a giant military transport and an advanced jet engine to power it. Lockheed and General Electric won the plane-and-engine competition, and their entry became the C-5A. The two losers, Boeing and Pratt & Whitney, were eager to find a market for their rejected designs. Boeing's chief, William Allen, decided to risk what turned out to be $1 billion in turning the military...
Unfit for Living. "It is literally now or never," Nixon said. "A major goal for the next ten years for this country must be to restore the cleanliness of the air, the water, the broader problem of population congestion, transport and the like." Perhaps Nixon's own rediscovery of his transformed native Southern California helped convert him to the cause. He had toured the environs of San Clemente only the day before, and his comments reflected what he had seen. "If you look ahead ten years," he said, "you project population growth, car growth, and that means of course...
...every part of Indonesia's economy-usually less out of greed than sheer need. Under President Suharto's austerity budget, armed forces units are required to provide between 25% and 40% of their own support. To raise funds, the army recently announced plans to commercialize engineering and transport-in effect, hiring itself out as an Indonesian version of Hertz Rent A Car. Some other examples of military business enterprise...
...currents to help fishing fleets find their catch, discover just where air pollutants go in the atmosphere, and vastly improve weather forecasting. Dr. John H. Knowles, head of Massachusetts General Hospital, drew sustained applause by questioning the nation's current priorities. "We are spending twice on the supersonic transport what we spend on medical research in one year," said Knowles, "and that's going to cause more disease, more noise, air pollution and traffic congestion. And who the hell wants to get to London a few hours earlier anyway...