Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JUDY COLLINS' FIFTH ALBUM (Elektra). Armed with a powerful, needle-sharp alto, Judy Collins tilts against modern windmills-superhighways, jet planes-eloquently defends Negro riots and sit-ins in the name of civil rights, and pierces through to the heart of the poetry in Dylan's Mr. Tambourine...
DARLING. Julie Christie is the apotheosis of trumped-up celebrity as a kooky, easy jet-set playgirl whose every misstep helps in the social climb...
...months and 131 million miles, Boeing's 727 won nothing but praise from pilots, passengers and airlines. The first American-made medium-range jet -and the first three-engine airliner the U.S. has built since the famed Ford Trimotor-it handles easily, skims like a swallow in and out of small airports, and until last August had logged an exceptional record for reliability...
...dwellers were almost pathetically glad to be released from their routine and from their machines, finding adventure of sorts in the simple business of walking down stairs or directing traffic in darkened streets. Adventurers are driven to figure out ever new, ever more outlandish forms of excitement, from using jet engines to shoot up, not down, the wicked rapids of the Colorado River, to musk-ox wrangling. The latter was said to be impossible since the musk ox is a strong, quick animal with a very short temper. But John Teal, a Harvard man who did graduate work in anthropology...
Scientists at both NASA and Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is building Surveyor, the first U.S. lunar soft-landing vehicle, remain skeptical of Barringer's theory. They say it is still largely conjecture. But it is conjecture that has made the problems of radar transparency a vital concern in the design of a sophisticated Surveyor altimeter that should have no trouble distinguishing the true surface of the moon...