Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DARLING. A disenchanted look at a jet-set success story, in which Julie Christie finds the room at the top is always a bedroom -and often a bore...
Over almost universal criticism of his award of the TFX jet fighter contract to General Dynamics instead of Boeing-which Air Force experts said had submitted a better and less expensive design-McNamara steadfastly insisted that "it was the most important single action we have taken thus far to reduce the number of different weapons systems in our inventory...
Rumors flew that Sukarno was dead, seriously ill, in prison or in flight. But Bung Karno has spent a lifetime showing the world how to be a survivor. He has nimbly escaped innumerable assassination attempts by bomb and bullet, grenade and jet fighter. Insurrections against him constantly erupt in the Outer Islands only to be put down or neutralized. What made last week's coups different was that leaders of both the first coup and the one that followed insisted loudly that they were defending Sukarno against the plots of others...
...find life on Mars faded deeper than ever into science fiction when Mariner 4 sent its remarkable snapshots across 135 million miles of space. The bleak, pocked surface of the red planet looked dead indeed. Because they saw no signs of erosion, space specialists from Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratories, who had directed the Mariner voyage, concluded that Mars probably never had any significant amount of life-supporting water. Though they were not quite ready to deny the possibility of Martian life, the JPL men seemed all but certain that what they could not see was not there...
...four-engine, pure jet C-5A will be big enough to carry 600 armed troops or the army's heaviest trucks and tanks, yet nimble enough to land on short, front-line airstrips. It will make possible direct flights from the U.S. to any trouble spot in the world, also has enormous potential as a commercial carrier that could transport both passengers and air cargo on international flights at much lower fares than at present. It will fly 30% faster (550 m.p.h.) than Russia's huge AN-22, which is only a turboprop, carry twice the payload...