Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drugs, cots, chairs, tables, tents, huts, trailers and walkie-talkies. One survival-minded citizens' group, The Miami Snowplow Co., requested $1.7 million worth of canned beef stew, a $1,632 stockpile of disposable diapers and bottles, 1,000 containers of aspirin, 500 instant ice packs and one medium-transport helicopter-but failed to survive as an organization through lack of support. The scene is Miami Beach, and the preparations are not for a hurricane but for those grand old American blowouts, the Democratic and Republican national conventions...
...warfare, responsibility for security is often difficult to define. The three Japanese last week were checked through a magnetometer at Rome's airport while their uninspected bags were being stowed. Rome Airport Police Chief Pietro Guli insists that baggage is the responsibility of individual airlines. Meanwhile International Air Transport Association Director Knut Hammarskjold calls airport security everywhere "inadequate...
Fateful Vacation. He went on to build more houses, buy apartments, acquire theaters and take over the regional Wurlitzer jukebox distributorship. By the time World War II hit, Wilson was rich. But he sold out everything for $250,000, joined the Air Transport Command and piloted C-47s over the Himalayan hump, probably the hairiest air route of the war. After being mustered out, he bought an Orange Crush distributorship, but it soured, and he lost $100,000. So he went back to construction and built a fortune of about $1,000,000, all the while sharpening his skills...
Last week TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin, a licensed pilot, flew aboard a Grumman turboprop executive transport equipped with the Collins ANS-70 on a 350-mile test flight into Chicago. On arrival at O'Hare International Airport, Hannifin was astonished to find that the plane, guided all the way by its automatic pilot, which in turn was controlled by R-Nav, was right on course as it turned into its final approach. He is not the only one who is impressed. McDonnell Douglas has ordered the system for its new trijet DC-10, and the Russians offer...
That look into the future may not be farfetched. The Concorde's small payload, mounting costs and environmental effects are creating discord in Britain and France. This week British Aerospace Minister Michael Heseltine and French Transport Minister Jean Chamant meet in Toulouse for urgent discussions of ways to ease the problems surrounding the plane. TIME European Economic Correspondent Roger Beardwood (210 Ibs.) reports...