Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...because the bank has not been built yet. Karp wants to knock over its temporary home, a modest but well-guarded house trailer. This is no easy matter to begin with, but Ballantine and his five-thumbed cronies make it even harder than necessary. The gang includes a giggly jet-setter, an ex-FBI agent who is Al G. Karp's nephew, a screwy mother and her manic son, and a black safecracker who wants to use his cut of the profits to run for mayor of Anaheim...
Europeans call it the arms deal of the century-and they may well be right. Some time this year, Belgium, Denmark, The Netherlands and Norway-four NATO nations acting as a consortium -will buy more than 350 new jet fighters to replace warplanes bought in the 1960s. France and the U.S. are battling fiercely for this sale because the eventual stakes are enormous. The consortium's purchase, involving an investment of at least $1.7 billion, is only the tip of a lucrative iceberg: a worldwide market for thousands of jets, spare parts and maintenance contracts worth more than...
Prince Charles has a new bird. At the Yeovilton Naval Base last week, he boarded a Royal Navy helicopter and began what is to be a 3½-month course in the fine points of chopper flying. Charles has already mastered jet fighters, and officers at Yeovilton say that he is a "natural pilot." But the navy is taking no chances: other pilots have been ordered to stay clear of the area whenever the prince is airborne...
Died. John Merriman, 50, who joined CBS News in 1942 as a page, later worked as a writer, reporter and, since 1966, as news editor for the Walter Cronkite evening news show, in the crash of an Eastern Airlines jet; in Charlotte, N.C. During his career, Merriman produced the award-winning CBS radio broadcast, "The World Tonight," covered the Senate-McCarthy hearings for the network during the 1950s, and two years ago earned an Emmy for his reporting of the Apollo space flights...
...objects) have proved of no practical value since their discovery in 1960. Now the faint, far-off points of light that are possibly the most distant objects in the universe-up to 12 billion light-years away -promise to take on more earthly importance. Scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are hoping to use the bursts of high-frequency radio energy that come from quasars to help them predict earthquakes...