"If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort - provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly."

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Source: Speech at the Australian Conservation Foundation, Canberra, in April 1970. The Environmental Revolution: Speeches on Conservation, 1962-77, 1978.

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