Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jackie Jensen says: "I quit baseball for several reasons, but the main one was fear of flying. It just wasn't worth it." And Science Fiction Writer Ray Bradbury has refused to fly at all, even when John H. Glenn Jr. offered him a lift in his private jet...
...jump a jet plane...
...describes actions of our society in vivid, dreamlike images. The people of the world must feel "like passengers in a supersonic jet liner who are forced to watch helplessly while a passle of drunks, hypes, freaks, and madmen fight for the controls and the pilot's seat." The 1954 Supreme Court decision was "a major surgical operation performed by nine men in black robes on the racial Maginot Line which is imbedded as deep as sex or the lust for lucre in the schismatic American psyche. This piece of social surgery ... is more marvelous than a successful heart transplant would...
Shortly after the coup, the U.S. suspended shipments of heavy weaponry, such as tanks and jet fighters, to Greece's NATO-committed armed forces-though the flow of small arms, ammunition and spare parts was allowed to continue. By so doing, the U.S. hoped to gain leverage over the colonels in order to persuade them to return the country to democratic rule. The effort failed...
...country's biggest employer, state-owned Israel Aircraft Industries, has doubled its work force to 7,000 and wants still more people. Besides assembling French jet trainers under license, the company will soon start building North American Rockwell executive planes and an inexpensive ($400,000), Israeli-designed, 22-passenger transport for which it has 100 orders, many from abroad...