Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buick while frantic banjo music gives pace to the scene. Nobody likes to hang around an airport, says an urbane narrator-and so the bandits, every one the spit and image of the movie cast, scurry out of their car and make their way onto a TWA jet, leaving the cops behind...
Pole Switch. Even if the atmosphere absorbs most of the particles before they strike the earth, McDonald and Gunst suggest, there could be major climatic changes. During periods of intense solar bombardment, there are noticeable changes in atmospheric pressure and the direction of jet streams near the north and south poles, which are not protected by the magnetic field. Such changes on a worldwide basis, the scientists say, might cause lush valleys to become barren wastes, deserts to bloom, icecaps to grow and cover the land, or to melt and raise sea levels enough to flood coastal cities...
...foreign-affairs experts as Political Scientist Robert Scalapino, Teodoro Moscoso, former coordinator of the Alliance for Progress, and Wayne Fredericks of the Ford Foundation. At every stop, public discussions will be held under the sponsorship of local World Affairs Councils and universities. Starting this week in Los Angeles, the jet-borne conference will visit San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Houston, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Chicago and Dallas. The meetings are meant for community participation; those who wish to attend should call their local World Affairs Council...
...Jet Fighter Pilot...
Carlson received both a masters in Public Administration and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard in 1963 after serving two years as a jet fighter pilot with the Air Defense Command. He taught economics at the Air Force Academy in Colorado for six years. In 1965, he held a one-year appointment as Assistant for Special Studies with the Secretary of the Air Force...