Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American SST by killing its federal financing. In his 61-page decision, the Secretary frankly admitted that the 100-passenger Concorde "will be noisier than existing subsonic aircraft, save arguably for the B-707 and DC-8 on landing, which [form] 27% of the U.S. commercial fleet." As for fears that the Concorde would pollute the air or change the climate, Coleman found no evidence of any significant danger...
...keeping warships out of the Gulf-proper. The Christian Science Monitor noted that the voyage was designed, to show that Washington "will not accept any threat to, or interruption of the supply of oil from Persian Gulf States." Two weeks later, 2,000 Marines form the US Sixth Fleet landed in Sardinia in a mock invasion of Arab oil lands. Vice-Admiral Turner told reporters: "We don't want to invade (the Middle East) but we are prepared...
...well-publicized exception to dignified behavior, an invasion of all-male drinking territory, washed out completely. When four female journalists plunked down a five-pound note and demanded drinks at the bar of El Vino, a Fleet Street bistro, they were rebuffed. Righto, said one veteran equal-rights advocate, female novelist Storm Jameson, who fired off a letter to the London Times calling the quartet "damnably undignified and ill bred...
...once president of the student body at Frank Cox High School in Virginia Beach, Va., was an average student at the academy and dated girls frequently. Last July, after the Navy heard reports about his sexual life and began an investigation, Berg resigned and was transferred from the Sixth Fleet flagship Little Rock to Norfolk Naval Base for discharge. Meanwhile, he read of the struggle by Air Force Technical Sergeant Leonard Matlovich (TIME, June 9) to challenge the armed services' ban on homosexuals. Berg too decided to fight. He had the full support of his family, including his father...
...Eastern, American and Trans World Airlines plunged deep into the red. Not surprisingly, airlines ordered few new jets. Even United, the biggest U.S. airline and one that is still flying at a profit, could not justify more planes. Last fall it dropped plans to buy a fleet of 20 "stretched" versions of Boeing...