Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...background for his portrait of Schmidt. The whirling mass in the upper righthand corner is a spiral galaxy. To the left is a very bright star as seen through an optical telescope. In the right foreground, Vickrey renders a quasar, which may be recognized by the small jet stream spilling out from it at right. In showing Schmidt's head with its reflections receding into space, the artist tried to "give the feeling of infinity, the impression of an echo or radio waves being transmitted. The echo of the head, you might...
...AVIATION. Development of a 2,000-m.p.h. supersonic jet transport plane, to be built by private companies on a 25%-of-cost basis. In support of an additional $200 million in 1966-67, Johnson said: "We hope to conduct first flight tests by 1970, and to introduce it into commercial service...
...commuters between Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center and McDonnell Aircraft's St. Louis plant, where the Gemini 9 capsule they were to pilot next May was abuilding. To both, the flight had become almost as routine as driving to work. To both, the twin-engine T-38 jet trainer they boarded last week for the 90-minute hop to St. Louis must have seemed about as tame as a tricycle...
...came with a silver lining. With cocoa exports thriving and the beginnings of a modern industrial plant, the country had $560 million in foreign currency reserves, boasted one of Africa's highest per capita incomes. Nkrumah squandered it on such expensive status symbols as an international jet airline, which loses almost twice as much money as it earns, and a $20 million international conference site which includes a bulletproof, bombproof, twelve-story apartment hotel that Accra wags call "the Maginot Hilton." To promote his image abroad, he opened 61 foreign embassies; his entourage to Peking last week numbered...
...Rolls-Fiat company for some time, but, mergers within the British aviation industry itself are in the offing. The government hopes to induce a merger between the two big airframe manufacturers, British Aircraft Corp. and Hawker Siddeley, and perhaps even to try to unite the two proud jet engine builders, Rolls-Royce and Bristol Siddeley. The combined companies presumably would be able to lift productivity, which is only one-third as high as in the U.S. aerospace industry, and two-thirds as high as in the French. By combining resources at home and abroad. British planemakers stand a chance...