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...Unproven Argument. However, nothing worked last week for proponents of the SST. Their losing fight for the SST was based on economics and industrial patriotism, and it was waged by appropriate leaders: Democratic Senators Warren Magnuson and Henry Jackson of Washington. The SST prototype is being built at the Boeing Co. in Seattle. Drastic layoffs at the firm have already produced an unemployment rate of 12.5% in the city, and an end to the SST project will inevitably mean an end of employment for some of the 4,800 now working on it. Aside from that localized effect, proponents have...
Finally, implicit in the debate was the painful proposition that of the $1.3 billion originally planned for the prototype, $800 million has already been spent. Was it reasonable to stop now? The environmental argument won; even though the environmental fears are largely unproven, and much of the outcry may be unduly alarmist, the counterarguments were not strong enough to overcome the doubts. Only the ground-noise problem is generally conceded. Both the White House and Transportation Secretary John Volpe stressed continued support for the SST and its importance to the economy. Nixon called the Senate vote a "devastating mistake...
...Rutgers offense is as yet unproven. Against Lafayette in the season opener, the Knights struck for 31 points in the first half and cruised...
Harvard has always won the Stein Cup, over Brown and Rutgers, by an impressive margin on the previous weekend, and is still somewhat unproven by this time. Princeton, after an auspicious early start during which it whips Rutgers and Navy, has lost badly to Penn the week before...
...that he allegedly had been on the Mafia payroll until 1963. Last week, after only ten days in office, the new police chief resigned. "I categorically deny the accusations," he said. In accepting the resignation, Stokes said: "To the best of my knowledge, Mr. Ellenburg is the victim of unproven accusations...