Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Windsors belong to the jet set's predecessor, the international set, where only old money need apply and natural grounding in elegant living is de rigueur. Within its gracious confines, the duke and duchess are automatically the guests of honor at any party they attend, as though he were still king. It is a circle of friends that dates back to the '20s, and each year its number is shrunk by death. Churchill and Lord Beaverbrook are gone, and so are Viscount Monckton, who negotiated the terms of Edward's abdication, and New York Central Board Chairman...
...took one look at the teeming campus, grabbed the next bus to her home in Yakima, 234 miles away, and had to be coaxed back. The group's first-quarter grade average was 1.8, and most were placed on probation. Jim Shoaf, who would like to become a jet pilot, is one of those on probation, seems more interested in his motorcycle than in his studies. A Negro girl stared at the Fs on her report card, ran to her dormitory room and attempted suicide...
...bonanza. For $14.7 million in stock, Greyhound bought San Francisco's Boothe Leasing Corp., which had been earning $400,000 a year mainly by leasing railroad freight cars and locomotives. Ackerman began buying jetliners-and made money when the credit-shy airlines started cashing in on the jet age. The subsidiary's earnings have zoomed 1,300%, to $6.2 million...
...balletomanes dashed eagerly from aisle to aisle to sample the best offerings. At the New York State Theater, the American Ballet Theater opened a month-long stand featuring the man whom Nureyev considers the finest male dancer in the world: Denmark's Erik Bruhn. Meanwhile, a few grand jetés across the Lincoln Center plaza, London's Royal Ballet twirled past the midpoint of its six-week season at the Metropolitan Opera, featuring Margot Fonteyn and the male dancer whom Nureyev considers second only to Bruhn: Nureyev...
Then war's end freed the Queens to do the job they were meant for: ferrying pampered travelers in elegant surroundings. As time passed, the ships' 1930s-style trappings made them seem dowdy to travelers with new ideas about opulence. Hurt by jet-age airline competition, the Queens also lost potential passengers to sleeker French and Italian ocean liners. By 1961 the ships were losing money, and Cunard began putting them on winter cruises in an effort to make ends meet. Last year alone, the line spent $4,200,000 remodeling the Queen Elizabeth...