Word: comets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lobsters and fish for chowder. White House Chef Rene Verdon had bought $150 worth of food at a Hyannis supermarket, and carefully insisted on his full quota of trading stamps. Years of Diplomacy. A friendly crowd of 500 was at Otis Air Force Base as Pearson's Comet touched down from Ottawa. After striding forward to meet his northern neighbor, Kennedy set the tone of the meeting. "We share more than geography," he said. "A history, a common commitment to freedom and a common hope for freedom, and in this great cause Canada and the U.S. stand side...
...alliance that can be hammered out. The monarchies of Saudi Arabia and Jordan-close friends of the West but hated enemies of the Arab nationalists-face the threat of uprisings at the hands of powerful local friends of the man in Cairo. When King Saud's private Comet plane, equipped with a royal throne, crashed last week against an Italian mountain, killing all 18 aboard, the Saudi Arabs automatically assumed that it had been sabotaged by Nasser agents...
...staff were right when they predicted a big market for the four-passenger Thunderbird. They were dead wrong when they helped the cost cutters overrule Ford auto men who felt that the public would soon get tired of the same styling of such Ford makes as the Falcon, Comet, and Thunderbird, none of which has been drastically changed in three or four years, while the rest of the industry has moved ahead with restyled models. Consumer research dictated that Ford concentrate on econ omy features in its models; but G.M., with a more intuitive feeling for the shifting desires...
European, and especially British, companies have had their troubles, too, but are still pushing ahead with commercial planemaking. They have the advantage over U.S. firms of smaller overhead, lower wages and heavy government subsidies for strictly commercial planemaking. The French Caravelle and to a lesser degree the British Comet and Viscount and the Dutch F-27 Friendship have made some inroads into what used to be almost an exclusively American market. There may be more important inroads soon. Pan American is quietly negotiating with Britain's Hawker Siddeley to buy at least 40 DH-125 jets, which it intends...
Once again Updike's comet-a blazing thesaurus trailed by an incandescence of reputation-is visible against the night sky. What wonders does it portend...