Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contradictions and uncertainties of the electorate have led Nixon and Humphrey, as their parties' frontrunners, to place unwonted emphasis upon their choices for running mate, seeking the broadest possible ideological umbrella. The old considerations of geographical balance are largely forgotten in the age of jet travel and TV. Instead, the candidates are seeking vice-presidential possibilities to bandage their political weak spots-and to add some luster to their familiar personalities. Some combinations discussed last week...
...campaign against Conservative Robert Stanfield, the sensible but restrained former premier of Nova Scotia, may have irrevocably changed the pace and style of Canadian politics. In a DC-9 jet and a helicopter, Trudeau bounced around the country as if it were the size of Rhode Island. Wherever he went, he brought glamour, style, movement. Matrons as well as teeny-boppers flocked to his side. He stressed participation, involvement, brought together a campaign army of talented, worshipful political amateurs as well as old pros. "This country is just beginning to burst into its greatness," he said in speeches reminiscent...
...more basic issue. The unions have flatly rejected management's effort to link wage increases to productivity agreements-a step Britain's Labor government calls essential to revive the country's sick economy. Similar labor strife has poisoned industrial relations across the U.K. Most of the jet fleet of British Overseas Airways Corp. lay idle at Heathrow Airport last week because of a strike by 1,050 pilots, who demand that their salaries be doubled to $31,000 a year. BOAC Chairman Sir Giles Guthrie calls the pilots "spoiled children." A three-week-old wildcat strike...
...Democratic Socialist Left, declared that only his party "offered a third road-a new alliance between socialism and liberty." In the rural areas, the federation has lost the support of many of its backers because it is linked in an electoral alliance with the Communists. In a jet-hopping tour across France, Centrist Leader Jacques Duhamel pleaded: "Let us not break France in two." His solution, of course, was a government of the center in which moderate factions from right and left could participate. The danger for the centrists was that French voters might feel that any vote not cast...
...Sure, we badly underestimated our growth factor," admits Deputy General Manager Robert C. Davidson. "But no one could accurately forecast the fantastic growth that air travel has experienced in the past six years." He has a point. In 1959, the first full year of commercial jet travel, 51 million domestic passengers boarded planes in U.S. airports. Less than ten years later, the total has more than doubled, to 115 million. Predictions-which will probably fall short of the mark-are that 280 million people will be flying in 1975 Airport congestion will thereby increase even more unless something is done...