Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DARLING. This jet-set satire with trimmings of pathos is tailor-made for Julie Christie's stylish performance as the amoral jade who sleeps her way from pad to palazzo...
...estimated $4.8 billion for 1965-66) out of a total defense outlay of $60.5 billion. In addition to maintaining an ever-growing combat force in Viet Nam, war costs include funds for a new Marine division, a second nuclear aircraft carrier, stepped-up production of giant C-141 jet transports, and development of the even-bigger C-5A, plus two new types of aircraft-the movable-wing FB-111 bomber and the lightweight COIN (for counterinsurgency) ground-support plane...
Computer Digestion. To carry out his mission, NORAD's commander, General Dean C. Strother, 57, can muster a force of more than 100,000 men, a Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS, pronounced bemuse) that stretches from Alaska to England, squadrons of missile-armed jet fighters, and flocks of Bomarc, Hawk and Nike-Hercules ground-to-air missiles. By its very definition, NORAD is a defensive force; by very obvious design, it adds immeasurably to the U.S. nuclear deterrent. Its buried COC is designed to survive any sneak attack; its trained staff will be able to make almost instantaneous...
...screens, they can flash up-to-the-minute weather reports from any area of North America, the status of defensive fighters and missiles, the positions of orbiting satellites and space debris (so that they will not be mistaken for missiles), even the number of rounds of ammunition available to jet fighters at a remote Alaskan airbase...
...prospect of dealing with the oil-rich Middle East brings visions of a thousand and one kinds of profit to many a Western businessman. In reality, the visions often become vicissitudes. Take, for example, the case of the jet planes and the apples...