Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opera; he is only lukewarm about Wagner and, with a few exceptions, indifferent to modern. Compared with Milan's La Scala or West Berlin's opera, whose repertories are laced with contemporary works, the Met, as one critic puts it, "remains a coach-and-four in a jet age." Bing has no desire to stand in the spotlight of the avantgarde. "Remember what Gustav Mahler used to say," he explains: " 'Interesting is easy; beautiful is difficult...
...Strategic Air Command. Schriever rode his missiles to four-star rank and leadership of the Air Force Systems Command, where, at the early age of 50, he became his service's No. 1 technocrat. But last week, under a broiling sun and a flyover of 19 jet planes, Schriever, tall and still youthful-looking at 55, took the parade salute at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., and went into premature retirement...
Mauve silk umbrellas were hoisted over the heads of General and Madame de Gaulle, while 200 dusky, nubile Cambodian maidens scattered jasmine petals from beaten-silver bowls in their path. The entire Cambodian jet air force-four null - flew past to take De Gaulle's salute...
would almost seem to be losing interest in the auto business; it makes only 2,000 cars a year, sells them at a starting price of $18,000, and 80% of its $356 million annual business is done in jet aircraft engines...
...supersonic transport presently scheduled for test-flying in 1968. Bristol Siddeley has been losing other business, though, including the engine contract for Britain's TSR-2, a tactical reconnaissance plane which the government decided to cancel last year. Meanwhile, Rolls-Royce has been rolling with its new Spey jet, which is being ordered for both U.S. and British civilian and military aircraft...