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Lasker:

I've seen a copy of it. It's very mild, thank God. And also boring, I think.

Q:

Now you did a number -- you went to a number of the board meetings of the Braniff?

Lasker:

Braniff board meetings. Braniff is doing marvelously well. They have a direct flight from Dallas to London with a 747, and they're going to have a Concorde flight to Washington and then to Paris and London this fall.

Q:

A Concorde flight?

Lasker:

Yes. The Concorde's going to fly on a sub-sonic speed form Washington to Dallas and come back sub-sonic, and then fly super-sonic --

Q:

How does this link up with Braniff Airlines?

Lasker:

Well, Braniff's people are going to fly the Concorde from Washington to Dallas and back to Washington. It's going to be a Braniff service.

Q:

This is the manner in which it gets --?

Lasker:

That's the way it gets used in the United States.

Q:

That's a very clever idea.

Lasker:

Certainly is.

Q:

Who brought this up? Did you?

Lasker:

No. Not me. It was Mr. Harding Lawrence. who is very bright, understands how to do everything about aviation. He needs very little help.





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