Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Talking Tough. To China-watchers, it all signaled a momentary victory for the hard-line Maoists over the adherents of a more subtle, less warlike foreign policy. That view was partially corroborated by the Chinese claim of a border dogfight in which one Red Chinese jet was shot down. Peking charged that the plane was engaged in a routine training flight inside Red China when five American "pirates" jumped it with air-to-air missiles and sent it crashing into Yunnan province. U.S. jets were indeed operating in the border area at the time, and claimed a kill themselves...
...Jet-Borne Virus. The problem may be more difficult than the finances suggest. The world's greatest smallpox reservoir is the Indian subcontinent. In the 1950-51 winter epidemic season, the Republic of India recorded 225,000 cases and 57,000 deaths. By herculean efforts involving 420 million vaccinations, India has cut the toll, and the 1965-66 figures are expected to be closer to 10,000 cases and 2,500 deaths-an enormous achievement, even allowing for continued underreporting. The improvement has been made despite manpower shortages, and the fact that ordinary vaccine will not keep for more...
Pakistan reports a comparable success in reducing smallpox, especially in its detached eastern portion, even though vaccinations have reached only about 30% of the population. Yet it was from Pakistan that five jet-borne immigrants started Britain's 1962 epidemic of the more virulent and deadly form of the disease, variola major, that claimed 62 victims and caused 24 deaths. Suddenly, Britain, which had abolished compulsory vaccination in 1948, had to scrap its small annual vaccination budget of $650,000 and stage a $3,800,000 crash campaign. Since then, there have been half a dozen outbreaks in Europe...
Soul & Heels. When Miller's drama was first performed in 1949, the public pronounced it pretty strong stuff. But the jet age and the Great Society have intervened, and the traveling salesman may some day go the way of rent control and the propeller-driven plane. Many viewers who tuned in to CBS's Xerox special were just curious to see whether the play had gone out of style since its premi...
...about us -the city's total population less 200 or so 20th Century-Fox playmates-it was not about London. Cathy McGowan is not "London's favorite dolly," but London's most unloved moron. David Warner's Hamlet is popular not because some jet-set clique has deemed it "In," but because Peter Hall has concentrated on the aspects of the play most meaningful for the 20th century (as distinct from 20th Century-Fox). Those who converse in the "flip jargon" have IQs of 80 or under; it is not the "basic" English for teenagers...