Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DARLING. Julie Christie's polished portrayal of the progress of a jet-set jade from obscurity to celebrity is irresistible in Director John (Billy Liar) Schlesinger's brittle satire...
...overloaded that they cannot begin to meet the demand for private housing. The tree-lined avenues of Lusaka, the nation's sprawling capital, reverberate to the clacking of hammers. A large government housing development is going up, and work is in progress on a Parliament building and a jet airport. Even more ambitious is a four-year national development program, which Kaunda hopes will give Zambia a solid base of cash crops and start a consumer-goods industry...
...Atlanta group got a week in London at a top hotel with all their meals, plus a round-trip jet charter flight. It cost them just $250 each. The Victoria Sporting Club picked up the rest of the tab. As with the three other Victoria-sponsored junkets this summer, that came to around $60,000, but the Americans have evidently been generous losers. "So far," purrs one official, "we have managed to come out ahead...
...planes came back last week. High over the Song Chu river locks near Thanh Hoa, something slammed into the tail of a Navy F-4 Phantom jet, converting it instantly into flaming debris. It seemed the work of SAM, the mobile Russian rocket, which had already brought down two other high-flying U.S. jets. Apart from the half-dozen fixed sites clustered around Hanoi, the U.S. does not know how many SAM units there are in North Viet Nam, for as quickly as they fire, the mobile installations lumber off on their trucks and trailers to new locations...
...dramatic upsurge of Europe's airlines, all of which are wholly or partially state-owned, stems both from continuing economic prosperity and from the growing urge of Europeans for air travel. By their eagerness to fly, they are helping the airlines get fuller use of their costly jet fleets, pushing up load factors past the break-even point for almost all major carriers. To increase profit margins as well as loads, the airlines are streamlining operations. Computerized electronic reservations systems and automated baggage handling have enabled SAS to eliminate 2,700 employees from the payroll in three years. BOAC...