Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plunging into new interviews about the many issues confronting the President in the summer of 1969. His file provided the bulk of the research for the story written by Keith Johnson and edited by Laurence Barrett. And as the magazine went to press, where was Fentress? In a jet once more, flying west to San Clemente and the West Coast White House, where the President will spend the next month. All of which led Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey to wonder if perhaps "the White House Press Room really shouldn't be a surplus Boeing 707 fuselage, where reporters...
...from his round-the-world tour with stops in Asia and Rumania; six days later, he flew to California for a month's vacation on the Pacific oceanfront, with a state dinner for the Apollo 11 astronauts in Los Angeles scheduled for this week. It was what came between jet journeys that counted...
...such compounds in his lunar sample, compared with perhaps 10,000 p.p.m. in a typical backyard sample of the earth's soil. The scientists also confirmed a surprising abundance of titanium on the moon. Though this space-age metal, vital in the manufacture of heatresistant parts for jet engines and rockets, is relatively rare on earth, one lunar sample was assayed at 6% titanium...
Seeking to answer that age-old puzzle, scientists from Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena crammed Mariners 6 and 7 with vastly improved electronic gear, ranging from tape recorders to miniature computers to extraordinarily sensitive infra-red and ultraviolet measuring equipment. The total cost of the Mariners and their launch vehicles: $148 million...
...gather at Entebbe airport half a day before the Pope was due: women in elegant, bright' ly patterned neck-to-ankle dresses, men toting six-foot cowhide horns, calypso singers and tribal dancers. Shouts went up when the East African Airways VC-10 appeared, flanked by four Fouga jet trainers: "There he is! He's coming, that good man." The Kampala police band, its drummers in leopardskin overalls, played the Uganda national anthem as President Milton Obote greeted the Pontiff. Heads of four other African states stood by in a LandRover: Tanzania's Julius Nyerere, Zambia...