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...will protest the noise and air pollution the supersonic transport jets (SSTs) will cause when they begin operation in the United States. The ceremony, called a "Festival of Death," will consist of the "mass extinction" of demonstrators at the Pan Am and TWA terminals...
Government and industry have spent $2 billion on Expo, much of it on facilities to transport and house visitors. Even so, the crowds may be more than Expo can handle. Already all hotel rooms within a two-hour radius of Osaka are booked, and families are being asked to take in visitors. The worst problems may come on a new highway built to move 25,000 cars a day but facing an estimated influx of 35,000. Police are warning Expo-bound motorists to pack two meals, drinking water and a portable toilet before they...
...reference to "cut-price deals" was, perhaps, the unkindest cut of all. As a charter member of the International Air Transport Association we have been a leading proponent of observance of IATA regulations, which, among other things, prohibit deals or discounts...
...have thrust enough particles into the air to affect global climate. When Krakatoa exploded in 1883, the temperature at the surface of the earth was reduced for several years. The new worry, though, is that such particles will not shower to the ground in rain or snow. The supersonic transport will fly at 60,000 ft., where there is no atmospheric turbulence or weather to bring pollutants down to earth. Even assuming that the plane has a fumeless engine, the water vapor in its exhaust may accumulate in the stratosphere, reflecting sunlight away from the earth...
...Committee. In the first blush of reform during 1966, the "Engine of the Revolution" diesel factory in Gorky reduced the number of its products from 18 to the four that its managers thought could be produced most efficiently. In 1968, on orders from the Ministry of Heavy, Power and Transport Machine Building, it increased the number of products...