Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million, with Congress still to vote on $300 million in supplementary funds. Plainly, congressional reductions did not pauperize Saigon. When the debacle began a month ago, ARVN was still equipped with some of the world's best weaponry ? U.S. grenade launchers, artillery, M-16 rifles, M48 tanks, helicopters, jet warplanes, trucks, transports and an extensive communications network...
...Mansions. Brown's spare approach is most apparent in his life-style in office. The conservative Reagan had operated in rather sumptuous fashion; he traveled in a Cessna jet or in limousines guarded by a squad of highway patrolmen. Brown put the limousines up for auction; he flies commercial and rides in a 1974 Plymouth with one plainclothesman. He vows never to move into the $1.3 million Governor's mansion that was started by his predecessor. Instead, he lives in a modest Sacramento apartment and pays the $250-a-month rent out of his own pocket. Gifts...
Milk Cartons. Despite the protests, T.U.C. General Secretary Len Murray refused to rescind the invitation. To keep potential demonstrators off balance, the T.U.C. would not disclose when Shelepin's Aeroflot jet would arrive or where he would go. Worried that the Soviet labor leader might be attacked or even assassinated, security agents later dispatched a stand-in resembling the short, heavy-set Russian in a decoy Daimler limousine. He took the brunt of a barrage of umbrellas, milk cartons, bricks and Passover cookies, as the real Shelepin slipped into T.U.C. headquarters through the tradesmen's entrance...
...tiny craft had been in space for 16 months and was nearly out of steering fuel. Yet flight controllers at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory last week managed to keep Mariner 10 alive and performing well through its third -and closest-encounter with the solar system's innermost planet. As it passed only 200 miles above Mercury's scorched surface, the half-ton robot swooped over the planet's north polar region, sent back some 300 closeup pictures and confirmed a puzzling fact-that Mercury has an innate magnetic field
...were dropped and foreign purchases of U.S. stocks fell because of the bear market. But, worst of all, the Commerce Department's statistics underscored the fact that the nation's bill for petroleum imports soared by $18 billion last year. This more than offset exports of soybeans, jet planes computers and myriad other products' and led to a merchandise trade deficit of $5.88 billion...