Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even as Makarios was airlifted to Malta and then to London on an R.A.F. Comet jet, a notoriously ruthless terrorist named Nikos Sampson was already being sworn in as President...
Also in the air was Sisco, flying in Kissinger's blue and white jet between Athens and Ankara, searching for solutions. He had been dispatched at the beginning of the week merely as a fact finder; when the Turkish ultimatum began to run out, he turned into a mediator, attempting to persuade the Turks to be patient and putting leverage on the Greeks to be generous...
...more intelligent than his reputation suggests. His public image reflects the traditional sporting interests of a princeling. He is often photographed wearing his black karate belt or sailing his Dragon-class La Fortuna; he represented Spain in sailing competitions at the 1972 Munich Olympics. He also pilots a jet and a helicopter...
...Secretary and his entourage of 40 stopped first in Nice to bone up on research materials and let some accumulated jet lag unwind-but a Simon faux pas made the brief stopover more eventful than that. Sunning on the beach with Willard C. Rappleye Jr., editor of the American Banker, he expressed in pungent terms his longstanding opinion of the Shah of Iran * who is pushing for higher and higher oil prices and whose nation was pointedly not among the countries that the Secretary would be visiting. Said Simon: "The Shah is a nut." He later explained that he meant...
Today the con game is bigger, more complex and even respectable. The jet liner and the telex cable have replaced the side-wheeler and the raft. Even the suckers are more impressive, as Equity Funding stockholders and the recent star-studded list of unfortunate Home-Stake oil-drilling investors has indicated. Yet there is still no first-class novel of contemporary American business. Perhaps it is because those who know the most about the subject are satisfied to be putting their creative talents to more profitable...