Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reductions and some ardent wooing of company executives by Cavanagh have stemmed the flight of industry from Detroit, brought a new Chrysler foundry, expansion of G.M.'s Cadillac and Ternstedt facilities, new plants for Budd Co. and Lear Jet Corp.-Detroit's first large-scale industrial construction in 35 years...
...year Air Force veteran and an eight-MIG jet ace in Korea, Lieut.Colonel James Robinson Risner, 40, was the archetype of the professional who until recently has borne the brunt of the U.S. military effort in Viet...
...missing. Risner's flight of six F-105 Thunderchiefs, said the official report, had streaked off on a late-morning mission against a "military target" near the Phu De Van Chan mountain range, 80 miles northwest of Hanoi. The weather was clear, visibility good, and the jets dumped three tons of bombs on the site. But the airmen had to brave a murderous curtain of ground fire from mounted .50-cal. machine guns and 37-mm. cannon. Risner's jet and that of another pilot were hit. Desperately, they headed southeast, hoping to reach the South China...
...Africa, OAS troops and Dominicans in Santo Domingo -all kept their powder dry and their gunsights blackened Roughly speaking, ten wars are in progress throughout the world this week. They range from petty conflicts in which the strategic weapon is a poisoned arrow to major air raids in which jet B-52s bomb jungle hideaways. As a leading French strategist on the Quai d'Orsay puts it: "There is no longer such a thing as war and peace, just different levels of confrontation...
...sinking a 51 -ft. putt on the 35th hole to sew up a three-stroke victory over Jack Nicklaus, and $50,000, golf's biggest prize; in Akron, Ohio. Winner of the U.S. Open, and a gentleman farmer from Magoebaskloff, South Africa, Player headed straight home (via chartered jet to New York, airlines the rest of the way), remarking: "I've got 1,000 trout in my fishponds, and I need all of them because Jack Nicklaus is coming over in February to fish...