Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PHILADELPHIA, HERE I COME! How it looked from Ireland is the perspective offered through the lens of Playwright Brian Friel. Patrick Bedford and Donald Donnelly make pleasing impressions as double exposures of a young man about to take a one-way jet to America...
...direct lines keep him in touch with the Police Department. And a police helicopter is available 24 hours a day to carry him to the scene of any disturbance within 20 minutes (in a few that will cut the time in half). weeks he will have a jet helicopter...
...Launched by an Atlas Centaur rocket less than a second before its time "window" closed, Surveyor headed toward the moon on a near-perfect trajectory that would have set it down just 40 miles from its intended target in Central Bay. Their hopes buoyed, scientists at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory planned a minor mid-course correction and ordered Surveyor's three small vernier engines to fire briefly. Two of the engines performed obediently, but the third refused to work. The resulting unbalanced thrust threw Surveyor into a tumble that built up to 146 revolutions per minute after...
Aldrin's underwater training has been largely pointed toward the most ambitious EVA activity scheduled for Gemini 12: use of the Buck Rogers-like, jet-propelled Astronaut Maneuvering Unit (TIME, Nov. 26). Initial plans called for Aldrin to emerge from his hatch and work his way back to the AMU, stowed in Gemini's equipment section. After snapping the AMU's chairlike arms into place, he was to strap himself in and then jet about in space, connected to Gemini by a 125-ft. safety tether...
...Monterey Jazz Festival in California last week, Composer-Saxophonist John Handy and his quartet launched into their opening number. Crash. A microphone toppled over. Handy tried to recover with a spiraling solo, but just as he built to a climax, the roar of a Boeing 727 jet drowned him out. Handy pressed on, but then the reed in his alto sax went sour, grounding the high-register flights that he plays so well. Undaunted, he introduced Blues for a High Strung Guitar-but wait, where was the guitar player? Unstrung backstage, as it happened, where he had to dash...