Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nelson Rockefeller is a commuter Vice President, shuttling frequently between Washington and New York in his private jet. Not before the end of the school year will he move his wife Happy and their two young sons to the capital city. But he never makes the trip home without taking along several top aides and a hefty leather bag, which is stuffed with up to 45 Ibs. of vice-presidential paper work...
...December afternoon in Ohio, and later the same day was inducted into the Aviation Hall of Fame. Those were only the latest tributes in an extraordinary career. During more than four decades at Lockheed, Johnson personally directed the design and production of 40 planes, including the first American combat jet (F-80), the U-2 spy plane and the Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) SR-71, which recently flew from New York to London in a record-breaking 1 hr. 55 min. As head of Lockheed's top-secret "Skunk Works" design shop, named after...
...jungles of Guam in 1972, all Japan was excited by the emergence of "the last soldier" of World War II. Yokoi immediately became a national hero. When the second "last soldier" of World War II, Lieut. Hiroo Onoda, was found in the Philippines last March, Tokyo sent a chartered jet to bring him home. When a third last soldier was captured on the remote Indonesian island of Morotai last month, the Japanese began to show a little embarrassment. How many more aging sons of Nippon can still be fighting for the Emperor in remote corners of the Pacific...
...tribe from Taiwan-long reputed for their bravery, stamina and ability to absorb hardship-Nakamura would like to return home and join his wife. She has long since remarried, but says that she will still be happy to see him. So far, the Japanese government has not sent a jet to take him back to Tokyo nor have the banners been brought out for a grand welcome. The Welfare Ministry, however, did compute Nakamura's back pay. After nearly 30 years alone in the jungle, he is entitled to the princely...
...wish on New Year's Eve after some frantic last-minute negotiations on the way to New York in a jet chartered by Edward Greenwald, a Yankee owner. The deal is unprecedented in a sport where a player contract for even two years is unusual. It assures Hunter a yearly income of $150,000, plus a $1.5 million bonus and a $1 million life insurance policy. Hunter hardly seemed impressed. Immediately after signing, he flew back to Hertford so he could be there on New Year's day -the last day of the deer-hunting season...