Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effortlessly, he rose to become one of France's youngest and most powerful Finance Ministers. A few days before his election as President of France, Giscard granted an exclusive interview to TIME Correspondent George Taber. Relaxing over a snack of Roquefort cheese and champagne aboard the Mystere executive jet that he used during the campaign, Giscard discussed his foreign policy and the goals that he has set for France under his presidency...
...postpone visits to Washington. Nonetheless, Kissinger was not out of touch with the State Department; since April 28, when he left Washington, 1,500 cables have passed between him and his staff at State, either through the U.S. consulate general in Jerusalem or over equipment aboard his Air Force jet. But broader thinking about U.S. foreign policy, as well as Kissinger's own plans to revitalize State, has had to be put aside, albeit in an important cause...
...Miami News to the New York Daily News in 1967, and is today syndicated in 89 papers. Suzy is not above mixing with mere movie stars for her chatty "Suzy Says" column, but prefers writing about diplomats, heiresses, princes and other members of what used to be called the jet set. She can be a bit saccharine ("Fatesingh, the Maharajah of Baroda . . . goes by the impossible nickname of Jackie") but is rarely arch. "Everyone I meet is a story," chirps Suzy. "I have fun with everyone, including myself...
...things have been going anything but great for Pan American World Airways. Indeed the airline seems to have been hit by nearly every conceivable disaster, from a seemingly unstoppable flow of red ink to a string of air crashes. Financially, the biggest calamity has been the soaring price of jet fuel brought on by the Arab oil offensive. Prices rose so high during the last quarter of 1973 that what had been expected to be Pan Am's first profitable year since 1969 turned into another big loser. Prospects for 1974 are so grim that Pan Am and Trans...
...paper got the entire document (in 44 pages) into most of its Wednesday morning editions. Behind that startling accomplishment lay a Monday-night decision by Tribune Publisher Stanton Cook and Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick, plus some inspired legwork by the paper's Washington staff. Early Tuesday morning, a Trib jet carrying three editors and two printing superintendents took off for Dulles Airport, where a copy of the transcripts arrived at 8:30 a.m., six hours ahead of the regular distribution. Trib executives would not reveal how they got their early copy. Says Kirkpatrick: "We knocked on every door in Washington...