Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...serious-hazard to air travel continued to plague airlines last week when four planes were hijacked to Cuba within as many days. Two of last week's incidents involved foreign airlines: An Avianca DC-4 captured on a local flight and a Peruvian National Airlines Convair 998 Fan jet en route to Miami. The third was an Eastern Electra taken over on a run from Miami to Nassau. Finally, late Saturday, a United Airlines Boeing 727 carrying 20 people was hijacked on a flight from Jacksonville to Miami...
...weeks, a total of 12,000 U.S. fighting men, including two brigades of the Army's 24th Infantry Division, will be flown from their U.S. stations to join the 220,000-man U.S. Seventh Army in West Germany. In addition, 96 droop-nosed F-4 fighter-bombers will jet from Stateside bases to West Germany...
...majorettes. Its thrice-weekly newspaper, the World Tribune, is filled with ardent testimonials of what conversion has meant. Every member is expected to help expand the rolls by the practice of shakubuku*-proselytizing -wherever he goes. Those who can afford it are urged to make one of the chartered-jet pilgrimages to the head temple of Taisekiji in Japan, which more than 10,000 members visit daily...
...Namath, the Brian Dowling of professional football, and his white shoes were superb in tearing the highly-rated Baltimore Colt defense to pieces. Matt Snell was also outstanding as his running balanced the Jet attack. But Namath got the car from Sport...
Died. Major Arthur W. Beckstrom, 33, highly decorated U.S. Air Force pilot (20 medals of valor, including the Silver Star and the Distinguished Flying Cross), who survived 202 combat missions in Viet Nam without serious injury; in the crash of his RF-101 Voodoo reconnaissance jet while on a training flight; near Blue Ridge...