Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...ministers from 45 nations made their reservations to depart. The club's living quarters were not even filled; most diplomats preferred the bustling Aletti Hotel downtown, or the St. George, where the frug and the monkey were nightly attractions. By midweek everyone was gone. With the fading of jet contrails heading toward Bangkok and Baghdad, Accra and Ankara, the spirit of Bandung II passed into history...
...three-wheeled Spirit of America, then raised the mark to 526 m.p.h. last year before Art Arfons took it away with a 536-m.p.h. clocking. Breedlove wrecked the original Spirit by driving it into a salt pond, and this fall he was back at Bonneville with a four-wheeled, jet-powered monstrosity that looked like the product of a union between a pop bottle and a fighter plane. The car was powered by a General Electric J-79 engine (the same kind used in the Air Force's F-104), which Breedlove picked up in Charlotte...
...television screen a flamingo takes flight across a verdant rain forest. A doe peers at the sky. A jet swoops upward, catching the wind, in a visual poem to flight. Educational TV? A documentary on aeronautics? No, just a two-minute spot plugging Eastern Airlines' flight to Miami. In any year it would have been a tasteful, artful job of the soft sell, but in this, television's slackest season, the Eastern Airlines commercial looked like a masterwork...
...Ikeya-Seki comet may have seemed a dud to casual observers who were screened from its spectacular passage by assorted weather conditions. It was by no means a disappointment to astronomers. Never before has a comet undergone such detailed scientific scrutiny-from observatories around the world, from specially outfitted jet planes, from NASA's sounding rockets...