Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sponsored by Prince Mohammed al Faisal, a nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Khalid, the conference demonstrated that there is no shortage of ideas for using icebergs to slake the world's growing thirst. Prince Faisal's own company, Iceberg Transport International, is considering a plan to find a 100 million-ton iceberg off Antarctica,* wrap it in sailcloth and plastic to slow its melting, and then use powerful tugboats to tow it to the Arabian peninsula, where it would supply enormous quantities of drinking water. The journey would take about eight months and the project would...
...confidently that he would have an iceberg in Arabia within three years. He had already succeeded in delivering a berg of sorts to Iowa, which had not seen one since the last glacier retreated, some 12,000 years ago. To dramatize his plan, the prince spent $5,000 to transport-by helicopter, plane and truck-a mini-berg of clear blue ice from Alaska's Portage Glacier to the conference, where it was chopped up and used for the delegates' drinks...
...first of the one-a-day flights in DC-10 jumbos, some seats were empty, and later some planes took off with only a third of the 345 seats filled. Yet at minimum, little Laker Airways (eleven jets) has broken the iron grip of the International Air Transport Association (I ATA) on transatlantic pricing* and prodded the industry's giants into offering competitive fares that are lower than they ever thought they would go. Pan Am and TWA actually beat Laker into the bargain-basement blue yonder by eleven days, selling stand-by seating on regular flights...
...alliance's armed forces. Thus U.S. Cobra helicopters, armed with TOW antitank missiles, provided cover for West German tank units and were directed to targets by West German officers. Old tricks were also polished, like dropping a Sheridan light tank from a low-flying C-130 transport plane...
DIED. William M. Magruder, 54, crew-cut former test pilot who headed the federal su personic transport program; of a heart attack; in Winston-Salem, N.C. Magruder was a test pilot for the B-52 bomber and played a major role in developing the L-1011 airbus. Although he argued forcefully for the SST, the program was defeated in 1971, and he became a special technology consultant to President Nixon, spurring increased Government fund- ing for mass transit, energy research and highway safety projects. In 1973 Magruder resigned to become executive vice president of Piedmont Aviation...