Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aggressive Pursuit. For almost two years, the Navy and the Air Force have been asking for permission to hit the North's jet airfields (it now has six such fields). Only 13 of the 521 U.S. planes thus far lost over Viet Nam have been brought down by MIGs; antiaircraft fire has downed most of the others. But MIGs frequently force a U.S. fighter-bomber to jettison its payload or to fly into a heavy curtain of flak in order to evade their pursuit, and lately they have been more aggressive in challenging U.S. planes. Red China last week...
Faithfully obeying its distant masters at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Surveyor 3 last week continued to show remarkable versatility on the surface of the moon. It shot and transmitted hundreds of pictures, took the moon's temperature, did some scientific stargazing, dug trenches, uncovered a buried rock, and even played around with a bit of lunar soil...
...Montreal. All that seemed a long time ago as a 19-year-old Canadian Army cadet last week sprinted into the Place des Nations amphitheater and, before 5,250 invited dignitaries, handed a blazing torch to Prime Minister Lester Pearson. Grinning, Pearson tipped the flame toward a gas jet in a canister, and a fire flickered up-to burn night and day during the six-month life of Expo...
...keyed Pearson, "will be in the dramatic object lesson we see before our eyes today-that the genius of man knows no national boundaries, but is universal." As he spoke, church bells chimed throughout Montreal, fireboats in the river blasted streams of water into the air, a flight of jet planes screamed overhead, and a fusillade of fireworks splashed in the sky, sending to earth a burst of parachute blossoms that carried the flags of each of the 62 participating nations...
...Gilbert in formed Bruce directors that he had used $1,953,000 in company funds in a futile effort to cover heavy stock losses. Then he boarded a plane for Brazil. Returning voluntarily four months later, Gilbert has since lived a life that belies his onetime jet-set status. With his assets frozen by a $1,700,000 federal tax lien and much of his income earmarked for creditors, he has been running a modest Manhattan lumber wholesale firm, living quietly with his second wife Turid and their two children...