Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...competition between American, French and Swedish airplane manufacturers for sales of a new lightweight jet fighter to NATO members is nearing an end. The winner could reap potential worldwide sales of $15 billion...
...still in business," said Kissinger as his Air Force jet soared between Cairo and Damascus in a hectic shuttle that also included a second visit to Jerusalem and brief meetings with King Hussein in Jordan and with King Faisal of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh. At week's end, Kissinger confirmed that he would indeed return to the area for another round of talks...
...Seidman's side Porter was suddenly motioned to a chair in the Cabinet room as Ford strode in. He began scribbling notes for his boss on the new economic moves. There came a week when he raced to Andrews Air Force Base and clambered aboard a windowless jet for a round-the-world flight. From Tokyo to Bonn, a small group of officials dispatched by the President helped explain to allied governments Ford's ideas for reviving the economy. Over the Christmas holidays Porter followed Seidman to Vail, Colo., and was seated at dinner across from Gerald Ford...
Aristotle Socrates Onassis, 69, is indisputably king of what passes today for the Jet Set. Despite a few minor financial reverses, the swarthy Greek tycoon still has a fortune estimated at up to $500 million, based on a worldwide shipping and commercial empire. That permits him the luxury of enjoying lavish residences in several countries, his own private island of Skorpios in the Ionian Sea, and probably the world's most formidable private yacht, the 325-ft. Christina. Above and beyond that, he is the husband of the world's most publicized beauty-Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis...
Their dancing continued to gain in strength and grace. By the time they arrived at the showy display of Riccardo Drigo's Harlequinade, Panov's springy jeté and Galina's whirlwind fouettes (whipping one-leg turns) were evidence enough that for them the two years had been stopped time, not lost time...