Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tote stuff around. "Without luggage," she says, "you don't have to waste time in customs and you don't have to declare anything." The Guinnesses are usually accompanied by a basic traveling staff of four, and they get about quite a bit, aided by their helicopter, their transatlantic jet and their 704-ton yacht with its crew of twelve. They follow the big and little seasons on such a clockwork schedule that they often don't even have to wire ahead. "When it's time for me to be in Paris, for instance," says Gloria, "the people there know...
Welding Retinas. Taking advantage of the unerring straightness and narrow diameter of laser beams, engineers are already using them to keep bridges, tunnels and dams in line during construction. Laser light has also proved helpful in aligning jet-plane assembly operations and the two-mile-long Stanford linear accelerator. When the high energy of laser light is concentrated on a small area, it serves as a high-speed drill that can burn precision holes through materials as hard as diamonds in a small fraction of the time required by conventional methods. It can vaporize the rough edges of such microscopically...
...come to life: the real dove that turns into a bottle of Dove liquid soap, the Ultra Brite girl who brands strangers with long-distance kisses. There is also an element of "I can do anything you can do" worse. Thus when Aerowax ricochets machine-gun bullets off its "jet-age plastic," another brand looses a stampede of elephants to trample over its "protective shield." The surrealistic approach often has a certain childish charm at first, but with repetition it quickly palls...
...Howard Hughes has bought up huge chunks of southern Nevada. Beginning with the Desert Inn, where he and Wife Jean Peters live in seclusion, Hughes has purchased a string of casinos, a flying service and more than 30,000 acres of land on which he envisions building a supersonic jet airport to serve the entire West Coast. Last week Hughes turned his attention eastward. Through his Hughes Tool Co., he offered to buy 2,000,000 shares of American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. or a 39% share of ABC stock that would cost him a cool...
Married. Princess Peggy d'Arenberg, 35, blonde jet setter and oil (Jersey Standard) heiress; and the Duc d'Uzés, 40, darkly handsome French nobleman (his title is the oldest in France); she for the third time, he for the second; in Marrakesh, Morocco...