Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have become familiar sights in every Arab land. But except for an occasional trip to Moscow or some other Soviet-bloc capital in quest of arms and aid, Egypt's President Anwar Sadat has rarely ventured beyond the Middle East. Last week Sadat's Boeing 707 presidential jet whisked him westward for a change. By way of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, and Vienna, Sadat flew to the scenic Austrian city of Salzburg for a face-to-face meeting-his first-with Gerald Ford...
...trip abroad was only the Met's third in 91 years (the previous visits were to Paris in 1910 and 1966). From Minneapolis, where the company had concluded its spring tour the night before, two planes flew over the Arctic Circle to Tokyo. One was a cargo jet holding 48,000 Ibs. of musical instruments, wardrobe trunks, props, makeup kits, shoes, nails, hammers and extra pin wire to hold the sets together. The other was a Boeing 747 carrying soloists, choristers, dancers, musicians, technicians, managers, wives, husbands, children-and a jittery Franco Corelli, who hates...
Married. Diahann Carroll, 39, ice-cool cabaret singer and film star (Claudine); and Robert DeLeon, 24, managing editor of Jet magazine, whom she met during an interview four months ago, a year after the end of her brief marriage to Las Vegas Haberdasher Freddé Glusman; she for the third time, he for the second; in Manhattan...
...talked at length with Ford and Kissinger on how to restore momentum to the next round of Middle East talks, tentatively set for Geneva this summer. As chief of state of the Persian Gulfs emerging superpower, the Shah came shopping for more military hardware, including the F-16 fighter jet and Air Force planes equipped with a new airborne warning and control system. He is intensifying Iran's already close ties with the U.S. in the private sphere as well. Final agreement is expected soon between the Tehran government and Pan Am on a $300 million deal in which...
...ruthlessly creating a totalitarian city-state which is oft-cited in the West as a showcase of successful capitalist development and a paradise for foreign investors. Accompanying this experience is a meritocratic-elitist ideology which is summed up in Lee's claim that Singapore will perish if a jumbo-jet containing 300 of Singapore's top leaders were to crash...