Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others matched that standard." A shy, unpretentious man who likes bow ties and fine cigars, Levi, 56, has employed a dry wit and a lawyer's tough logic in his pivotal task under Beadle: raiding other faculties of their top talent. An aristocratic intellectual who reads widely at jet-pace speed, Levi developed a rapport with academicians that neatly complemented Beadle's administrative and fund-raising skills...
...hour trip began well. Blasting off from Cape Kennedy, Surveyor was aimed so precisely that without correction it could have hit the moon within 26 miles of its intended landing site-one of the most accurate launches achieved by the U.S. space program. But controllers at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, aiming for perfection, ordered a delicate midcourse maneuver to place Surveyor directly on target. It was then that the entire mission came close to disaster...
...which go a long way toward eliminating the car's boxy appearance. Coming in for the biggest changes at Chevrolet is the Corvette. Rakishly restyled, with a body 7 in. longer than present models', the '68 Corvette has high-backed seats, hideaway windshield wipers and jet-age gizmos like the "spoiler"-a raised airflow deflector that adds a decorative touch to the rear deck, also helps reduce the danger of spin-outs at high speeds...
...sort of jet plain Jane that goes by the name of air bus may soon become a hot new piece of airline equipment. The concept-a subsonic job with double the passenger capacity of jets currently flying short-and medium-range runs-has been in the talking stage in both the U.S. and Europe for over two years. Now Lockheed Aircraft Corp. plans a 600-m.p.h., $15.6 million model which, if it draws enough orders, could go into production as early as next spring...
...miles), high-density hops as the rich New York-Miami run. With 227 to 300 passengers in a comfortable two-aisle layout (six abreast in first class, eight or nine in economy), it promises to whiz along for under 1? per passenger mile-less than any existing jet. That efficiency, and the fact that it can use runways too short for smaller, four-engine airliners, is the result of the plane's major technological advance: Lockheed will use three 33,000-lb.-thrust turbofan engines (two mounted under the wings and one in the tail) like the ones slated...