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The Europeans may end up in the back of the bus altogether. Other U.S. companies are stirring with plans—Boeing with a 757, McDonnell Douglas a DC-10. And last week, while Lockheed was getting word around that the L-1011 could be in service in 1972, the European troika was bucking along as usual. Scheduled to join its partners in signing a long-delayed agreement to start talking specifications, France abruptly demurred, demanding more time for study. Such time-outs pretty much assure that the Europeans will not get into the game until 1973 at the earliest.