Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnamese paratroops two days of headstone-to-headstone and house-to-house battling to drive the Communists out. All week long, battles raged around Saigon's Y Bridge, where snipers and Communist demolition teams, vainly assigned to blow up the forked span, held out against helicopter gunships and jet bombers while U.S. and South Vietnamese armor and infantry slashed at them on the ground. At week's end they came out shooting, trying to escape a tightening "wagon train" ring of allied armor and guns; 88 were killed. Inside Cholon, a few Viet Cong flags blossomed, and terrorists...
...dressed in semimilitary garb was captured as it brazenly tried to march across a bridge into Saigon. Communist units approached Saigon from three directions and everywhere were beaten back. One force coming from the west was forced by U.S. armor into open swampland, where they were cut down by jet fighter-bombers and helicopters as they doggedly kept moving toward the city. Some who were captured were only 13 and 14 years...
Flippie Brood. Since his wife's death last May in a head-on auto crash, Harlech has led a fairly quiet, solitary life except for a series of jet-age visits with Jackie. He accompanied her on a regal six-day tour of Cambodia in November, joined her in February at the Georgia plantation of former Ambassador to Great Britain John Hay Whitney, and escorted her, hand in hand, to Trader Vic's restaurant in Manhattan. Despite their obvious pleasure in one another's company, both have flatly denied rumors of a romance; Harlech says...
Acapulco, top Pacific Coast beach resort, has no less than 83 international jet flights each week. Even such a recently discovered beach resort as Puerto Vallarta, made famous by the film The Night of the Iguana, is now rushing to completion its own $3,300,000 jet airfield, installing the town's first dial telephones and nearly doubling hotel accommodations...
...jet age, Britten-Norman Ltd. seems almost an anachronism. The airstrip at the company's plant near the resort town of Bembridge on Britain's Isle of Wight is nothing but a sod runway. The one plane that Britten-Norman builds carries ten people in a fuselage that even its designers admit is "just an aluminum rack." It has a high, slablike wing and a top speed of only 168 m.p.h. Yet low and slow as it flies, the Britten-Norman (BN-2) Islander, as it is called, has proved to be a soaring success...