Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy, 32, cracked brittle jokes ("I just happen to have with me a speech that I didn't get to make at the Democratic convention in West Springfield last June"), then carefully eased into a convertible for a rootin'-tootin' motorcade to the airport. A commercial jet took him to Miami, and the family Caroline on the last leg of his odyssey to his two children in Palm Beach. But all that wasn't quite enough for Teddy Jr., 3, who greeted his father with "Carry me piggyback, Daddy?" "I'm afraid...
...With jets, bosses move about more because they can fly out and back fast enough to prevent piled-up paperwork. "We now have a tendency to make a trip for a two-day meeting that we would have put off before," says Lear Siegler Vice President John J. Burke. At Bell & Howell, six ranking officers will use the ordinarily dead week after Christmas for a jet swing to pep meetings in Cleveland, New York and Los Angeles, returning to Chicago in time for New Year's with their families. Many travelers never glimpse the city in which they have...
...jet trend brings lower hotel bills as well as higher efficiency. Bankers and buyers travel to New York's money and merchandise markets more often, but for shorter lengths of time. The length of occupancies in Manhattan hotels has dropped from 3 clays to 2.2 clays per guest with the advent of the jets. "We go to New York at the drop of a hat," says Vice President Brown Meggs of Hollywood-based Capitol Records. "The jet has made the whole thing much more casual...
...locate their plants as close as possible to airports, and an executive hunting for a home tends to keep in mind how many min utes he will have to allow before flight time. And while some large corporations are closing out now unnecessary branch offices because of the jet's ability to get their men to the territory fast, others are expanding. When small Technical Operations Inc. of Burlington, Mass., acquired a $6,000,000 company in San Carlos, Calif., jet speed was a definite consideration in the deal. "If we couldn't get there readily," says...
...once heroic 100,000-mile-a-year traveler has been superseded by the 250,000-mile man; both Kaiser Industries President Edgar Kaiser and Loew's Hotel President Preston R. Tisch flew that far last year. Jets also make it possible for prosperous executives to live in one climate and relax in another. Pan Am has a regular clientele of Manhattan businessmen who have bought winter homes in Nassau, jet from snow to sun weekends on an easy 2-hr. 50-min. flight...