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Meanwhile, another aerial drama was under way. Back in Amsterdam, the two "Senegalese" who had been denied passage by El Al had bought first-class tickets on Pan American's Flight 93, a 747. As Clipper 93 taxied toward its takeoff position, ground controllers?whom El Al had alerted about the attempted hijacking of its craft and about the suspicious passengers it had bumped off its flight and onto Pan American?radioed a warning to Captain Jack Priddy. He halted the 747 and walked through the passenger compartment looking for the pair. When he finally found them, they readily agreed...
...Lufthansa 707 was taxiing to takeoff when a threatening telephone call alerted the Cologne airport tower. As a result, Brandt arrived 90 minutes behind schedule at the Soviet government's Vnukovo airport, about 18 miles southwest of Moscow, where an honor guard stood waiting. When Kosygin asked about the flight, Brandt replied: "It was a bit bumpy, but it smoothed out over Russia." As he was driven to a government villa on Lenin Hills overlooking Moscow, Brandt showed Kosygin the results of a new public-opinion poll indicating that 79% of his countrymen approved of his foreign policy...
...sell. In Delia Femina's view, Mobil's "We want you to live" campaign is smarter than most because it says that the company really cares about its customers. Beer campaigns are tough. Delia Femina contends that Stan Freberg's "Ballantine's Complaint" campaign, a takeoff on Portnoy's Complaint, was based on the wrong premise. "How many beer drinkers can read?" Delia Femina asks. By his reckoning, Schaefer, a Brooklyn-based brewer, has the best advertising theme: "The one beer to have when you're having more than one." That message means something...
Atlantic River. All the same, SST defenders have still not offered convincing proposals for dealing with the supersonics' most pressing problem: ear-shattering "sideline" noise generated at takeoff and landing. According to one estimate, the airport roar of a single SST will match that of five jumbo jets. Proposed solutions to sideline noise and sonic boom have thus far been less than encouraging. Some scientists have proposed recycling jet engine exhausts to reduce noise. Others have suggested powerful electrostatic fields to ionize and brush aside air molecules before they can pile up and form boom-producing shock waves...
Extra Precautions. For Apollo's launch, scheduled on Saturday, April 11 at 2:13 p.m., E.S.T., NASA has introduced a number of innovations. To prevent a repetition of the spectacular lightning flashes that marred Apollo 12's rain-drenched takeoff, momentarily knocking out the craft's electrical power, the space agency has set strict new weather limitations; should atmospheric conditions pose any threat of electrical disturbances, the flight will be postponed. As an added precaution, one of Apollo's three fuel cells has been placed in a separate circuit, lessening the possibility of complete loss...