Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Europe, and two of these facts directly contradict information given by Dustin Burke. (1) It is possible to charter projects to Europe this summer. While Mr. Burke claimed that this was impossible. I have seen a signed quotation by an airline to a N.Y. organization for a prop-jet to Europe this coming summer at a cost of $10,000 for 87 seats which is $115 per seat. (2) Prices have not gone up significantly this coming summer as a compared to last summer, as Mr. Burke claimed. In fact, the round trip cost of chartering a jet from...
Students at Lake Worth Junior High School near Fort Worth have for years been learning the hard way. Their school lay directly in the approach path of SAC's Carswell Air Force Base, and every day there was a 10% loss in teaching time as the B-52 jet bombers thundered over. Last week Lake Worth had a clever solution to the problem...
...Washington, which began by restricting missions to four planes. With half of the craft flying cover, such small flights often failed to destroy their objectives. Explains a Pentagon official: "These are young, green kids, and there was a lot of flak around." Because of mountainous terrain, the U.S. jets usually must attack low, slowly, and in single file, which makes them all the more vulnerable; it was only last November when a jet fighter was shot down and its pilot killed...
...Tylercraft's first jet-powered 24-ft. auxiliary sloop ($4,885). The jet engine takes less room and costs half as much as a propeller inboard, uses regular gasoline...
Motion Picture rang both Jackie and her sister, Princess Radziwill, into its cover act: WITH SADNESS WE REPORT: WHY JACKIE'S SISTER is A BAD INFLUENCE ON HER. In the past year, said Motion Picture, Princess Radziwill, described as a "jet-setter," has insistently urged her sorrowing sister "into this eddy of meaningless movement." With dismay the magazine also reported that Mrs. Kennedy had actually been seen in Shepheard's, the Manhattan discotheque that is "one of the jet-set's favorite rendezvous...