Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jet-Set. Within Morocco itself, Hassan's expansive ambitions have a better chance. Shortly after he came to the throne, he called in International Monetary Fund experts to help him stabilize the nation's finances, and the result has been a reform in tax collection, wiser government spending and a mild austerity program that has allowed him to build a modest foreign currency reserve. Realizing the value of the tourist dollar, he has promoted a series of resort hotels from Tangier to Marrakesh, turned Morocco into the haunting ground of such jet-set types as Truman Capote...
...Relief is coming for the Boston commuter," promised American Airlines' full-page ads. American, hoping for some relief itself, was touting its fancy new Boston-New York Jet Express service, which begins this week. Once king of the route, the airline is challenging the upstart that has virtually swept the rich Northeast Corridor since 1961: Eastern Air Lines' pinchpenny but popular Air-Shuttle...
...where-the-action-is London, the ultimate cool is to be a fashion photographer. Fashion photographers, after all, live in converted carriage houses, make love to the world's most exotic miniskirted women, and play with cameras, fabulous toys of the jet-set generation...
...forecasts that the eventual U.S. market will be 260 to 460 planes, expects worldwide sales to reach 600 or 800 once they begin to roll off the company's production lines in 1970. And along with sales prospects among airlines, Fairchild figures that its low-cost, economically operated jet could make an attractive executive airplane for corporations...
Despite the fact that the Administration at year's end named Boeing and General Electric as the winners of the competition to build the U.S.'s first supersonic jet transport, the big bird has remained in a stall. In a bind over budget and congressional problems, President Johnson held back on funds that Boeing and G.E. need to make prototypes. Last week, however, the Administration hit on a new maneuver to start the SST toward...