Word: dc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past performance is any gauge, Barrientos will need the rest. At least twice a week while coPresident, he jumped behind the controls of his rickety DC-3 and went whistle-stopping to the remotest corners of his Andean nation, donning Indian hats and ponchos, beaming through storms of confetti and trading quips with campesinos in their native Quechua tongue. He ran his government with the same dash and flamboyance...
...demanded its removal. Last month Sékou Touré's prestigious but overextended Air Guinée had to cease operations: only one of its four routes was paying its own way, and its Soviet Ilyushin transports were breaking down regularly, along with a few American-supplied DC...
After almost a month of operation, the Cuban refugee airlift is shaking down into a steady, efficient rescue of people fleeing Castro's Communist dictatorship. The flights are now up to two planes a day, five days a week, and the Pan American DC-7s bring their full load of 95 passengers. In the first 24 days of the lift, some 2,500 Cubans left their unhappy homeland. Less than half settled in the Miami area, which already has 100,000 Cuban refugees. The rest of the newcomers went to other cities throughout the country...
...Soviets' Aeroflot would jointly operate a weekly flight using giant Russian TU-114 turboprop planes, Russian cockpit crews (with a Japanese pilot sitting in as a face-saver) and mixed Soviet-Japanese cabin crews. Because of Russian sensitivity about Siberian military installations, Japan's 707 and DC-8 jets would at first be confined to the Tokyo-Kharbarovsk leg; after two years, the Russians would consider allowing J.A.L. craft to fly the entire 4,650-mi. run. The Soviets have also suggested that Japan help develop Siberian industry, invest $2 billion in oil refineries and in pipelines...
That is about the pace at which DC has been moving since Taylor, 49, bought a majority of the stock in 1963. So far, he has made four major domestic acquisitions, quadrupled the line's income. After a short fishing trip to the Caribbean (his first vacation in two years), Taylor will fly to Amsterdam to get the new European venture rolling. Already on his agenda: plans to expand the ten-country network by adding Portugal and Spain in the near future, later extending service to a number of countries behind the Iron Curtain...