Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AMERICA'S long embryonic supersonic transport plane, which has had no fewer than four Presidents willing to claim fatherhood, turned out last week to be only an idea whose time has not yet come. The development may be merely a forced rest; for the time being, however, the giant 1,800-m.p.h. plane is grounded, thanks to a surprising 52-to-41 Senate vote that denied another $290 million for its development. Behind the vote was the persistence of a single Senator and the force of a newer idea: protection of the environment...
...Cross-the first political kidnaping to occur north of the Rio Grande-set in motion a series of events that shocked the world. Acting with unflinching determination, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau rejected the terrorists' initial extravagant demands for Cross' release: $500,000 in gold bullion, plus transport and safe conduct for 23 jailed F.L.Q. thugs to Cuba or Algeria. After the ransom was denied, another group of kidnapers then abducted Quebec Labor Minister Pierre Laporte, prompting Trudeau to crack down really hard. Under a little-used World War I security measure, the Prime Minister invoked emergency police powers...
Expensive Midi. The downtown merchants-who have to cope with the crime, grime and transport snarls of the central city-are being hurt worst. There are some exceptions; for example, Chicago's Marshall Field and San Francisco's I. Magnin are doing well. On the other hand, in the twelve months ended last August, retail sales in downtown Cleveland plunged 23%; they fell 12% in downtown Philadelphia, 10% in Los Angeles, Baltimore and Boston...
...they can find. But the sly old iconoclast long ago found a secret printing press to publish about 5,000 copies. On publication day, Sartre and a few friends (including Film Directors Jean-Luc Godard and Louis Malle, and his longtime companion, Simone de Beauvoir) pick up the papers, transport them to a side street near St.-Germain-des-Prés, and begin to peddle them. Then the police arrest everyone giving away, selling or reading the paper. Everyone, that is, except prominent people and, of course, Sartre and De Beauvoir, who stay on to deliver diatribes about...
...unusual risk along the Russian-Turkish border. The Soviets sometimes adjust their own, usually stronger beacons to the same frequency as those across the border. In fact, the U.S. is convinced that at least once, in 1959, they deliberately overrode a signal from Turkey to lure a U.S. military transport across the border and attack it. That incident took 17 U.S. lives...