Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just before midnight, telephones began to jangle as friends and relatives living in border towns frantically put in calls to the capital. The alert was spread by taxi drivers and owners of private cars, who raced through the medieval streets with their horns wailing warning. Soon the roar of jet engines reverberated through the night skies; Russian planes were flying ominously low. At 1:10 a.m., Radio Prague interrupted a program of music to confirm the worst: "Yesterday, on August 20, about 11 p.m., troops of the Soviet Union, the Polish People's Republic and the Hungarian People's Republic...
Prague was assaulted first from the air, as giant Tupolev transports, covered by MIG jet fighters, began landing every minute at Ruzyne airport. The first passengers were the elite paramilitary units of the KBG, the Soviet secret police, whose mission was to secure the capital's airfields, railroad stations, cable offices and broadcast centers. It was perhaps at Ruzyne that the first sign of Czechoslovakia's remarkable campaign of passive resistance appeared. The airport officials refused to supply the Soviet planes with fuel. At nearby Pardubice airport, the Russians had to set up their own control tower after Czechoslovak...
...Soviets were trying to create at least a modicum of government over the recalcitrant Czechoslovaks, the destiny of the nation's reformist vision of Communism was being debated behind closed doors in both Prague and Moscow. Dubcek and Cernik were flown off to Moscow in a Soviet military jet. The Czechoslovaks at first broadcast reports that Dubcek had been killed, but that was cleared up in one of the many weird, almost unreal vignettes of the week. Dubcek's mother marched in to see the local Soviet commander in Bratislava, demanding to know what the Russians had done with...
Heavy Guard. For a man of 70 in uncertain health, the 5,941-mile flight to Bogota was an ordeal, and the Pope's aides tried to surround him with every amenity. Paul's compartment in the specially outfitted Colombian jet that carried him on the 11-hr. 50-min. flight from Rome was equipped with commercial aviation's first airborne bathtub -a convenience that even President Johnson's Air Force One does not have...
...president for twelve years, and new President Arthur E. Smith, 57, will have challenges of their own. United's production schedules have been disrupted by Viet Nam priorities, and the company must simultaneously continue development (at a cost of some $80 million so far) of its JT9D jet engine for the next generation of airliners. Then, of course, there are Horner's records to be beaten, such as United's peak first-half earnings, announced last week, of $32.5 million on sales of $1.3 billion. That is about triple what the company was earning in an entire...