Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ball raised only $40,000 for the beleaguered Venetian artisans-a donation of less than $80 per Beautiful Person. But after all, did not the Tiepelo nose belong to Douglas Fairbanks, and was it not swizzled in his champagne by Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes, charter member of the jet set-and was that not what a Ballo in Maschera was really all about...
...Aramco construction boss in his mid-thirties, whereupon he quit to form his own company and with the late King Ibn Saud's patronage built $500 million worth of airfields, dams and highways throughout his nation; of injuries in the crash of his de Havilland DH-125 executive jet; near Khamis Mushait, Saudi Arabia...
...problem of moving this vast torrent of people between cities is difficult enough. But the real headache is handling the flow from city to airport and in the airports themselves. As William Pereira, master planner for the Los Angeles Airport Commission, puts it: "The real bottleneck in the jet age is not in the air but on the ground. We must break the ground barrier...
...public-address system has replaced the megaphone, and jet planes overhead often add a discordant note. But the grace notes of yesterday still abound...
Died. Ad Reinhardt, 53, prophet of minimal art; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Starting as a cubist, Reinhardt gradually reduced color, texture and deign to almost jet-black canvas squares, with only the slightest shadings of muted colors and black-on-black stripes. "I'm just making the last paintings anyone can make," he said. Critics long tended to dismiss his grail as more void than essence, yet in recent years the art world rewarded his search with fame and up to $15,000 per canvas...