Nov 17 1968

From The Space Library

Boeing Co. in Washington, D.C., displayed scale model of new fixed-wing design for SST with downward-bent wings inboard to­ward fuselage and vcrtical tail placed well forward of horizontal tail. SST Program Director M/G Jewell C. Maxwell said in interview' "I think we have a much greater feeling of confidence than we have had in some time. We now have a design in hand that seems able to do the job." Boeing would submit new design to Government in mid-January but, said New York Times, "there is some nervousness about the recep­tivity of the new Congress for a budget request that will probably come close to $300 million for the fiscal year ending June 1970." Current estimates of overall SST cost were $1.5 billion. (NYT, 11/18/68, 93)

In New York Times Walter Sullivan said nuclear specialists who met in Stockholm during April and June at invitation of International Insti­tute for Peace and Conflict Research had confirmed effectiveness of new method of distinguishing man-made explosion from natural earth­quake at thousands of miles by comparing magnitude of seismic event in waves crossing earth's surface with magnitude of "body waves" from same event that had passed through earth's depths. Analysis by scientists from U.K., Canada, and U.S.S.R. had shown strength of sur­face waves related to body waves was consistently less in bomb explo­sions than in earthquakes. (NYT, 11/17/68, 1)

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