Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bikinis Ho. The jet rush is on, and no letup is in sight. The number of passengers through Honolulu airport has more than doubled in six years, and airline executives foresee an even greater escalation after the 490-passenger "Jumbo" Boeing jets start to fly in 1969. Some visitors flying tourist class pay only $100 for the five-hour flight from...
...though he did "abominably" in school while growing up in suburban Boston where his father is a newspaper advertising man and his mother runs a thriving nursery school. Not until Bailey dropped out of Harvard College after two years and went into the Marine Corps as a jet fighter pilot did he find his vocation. Since lawyers are not required in most military trials, Bailey was able to become legal officer for 2,000 Marines at Cherry Point, N.C., and he tried more than 200 cases. With credit for his time in service, he was then allowed to skip further...
Bailey knows all about bugging and hypnosis as well as polygraphy. Along with electronic gadgets, his jet-age operation includes five office cars and five investigators headed by the former chief investigator for Boston's strangler bureau. Divorced and remarried (three children), he is rich in possessions: a Pontiac GTO, a Thunderbird, three sizable yachts, a 17-room ranch house and 80 acres in Marshfield near Boston. The whole empire is connected by two-way radios that keep the boss in constant touch as he swoops around the country in his Cessna 310 airplane...
...guest book reads like an international list for the guillotine," muttered Leo Lerman from Mademoiselle. In swarmed the jet-setters (Gloria Guinness, Lee Radziwill, Count and Countess Rudolfo Crespi, Mrs. John Barry Ryan III), the intellectuals (Arthur Schlesinger Jr., McGeorge Bundy, William Buckley), show-biz folk (Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, Jerome Robbins), the writers (Edward Albee, Marianne Moore, Norman Mailer) and official Washington (Nicholas Katzenbach, John Sherman Cooper, Jacob Javits...
FAREWELL TO STEAM by David Plowden. 154 pages. Stephen Greene Press. $8.95. An elegiac account of an age defeated by oil and jet engines-the lake and river steamboats and the great locomotives that opened up the continent...