Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WORLD), the bridegroom beamed as Skowcroft offered a simple toast with Korbel (California) champagne: "Health and happiness to both of you!" Then, accompanied by their families, the couple drove to Arlington for the four-minute ceremony and were whisked to National Airport, where Nelson Rockefeller's jet was waiting to fly them to Acapulco for a ten-day honeymoon...
...like the moon and it isn't," said Donald E. Gault, one of the scientists monitoring the Mariner data at NASA'S Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif. The pictures showed that Mercury's craters are much flatter and thinner-rimmed than the moon's and resemble giant pie pans-an indication that they may have been worn down by some yet-to-be-identified erosional process. Like most of their lunar counterparts, Mercury's craters were apparently created by impacts of asteroid-size chunks of material rather than by volcanic eruptions. Indeed, one crater...
...remedy the situation, Sylvester in 1973 purchased a ten-year-old United Air Lines jet for $750,000 and hired an experienced flight crew of 16. For an additional $750,000, he then ripped out Starship's seats and furnished it fit for a shah...
...announcement, President Nixon proclaimed the end of gasless Sundays in the U.S. General Motors canceled layoffs of 27,000 workers that had been scheduled to begin this week, in the hope that greater availability of gasoline would halt the deep slump in car sales. Gulf Oil slashed prices of jet fuel, kerosene and heating oils between 1.5? and 5? per gal., while Texaco announced a penny-per-gal. cut on gasoline-welcome signs of a break in the seemingly endless inflationary escalation of oil prices...
Like now-retired New York Jet head man Weeb Ewbank, Harvard varsity lacrosse coach Bruce Munro is learning that not all illustrious coaching careers end in a blaze of glory. Munro, retiring at the end of this season after 26 years at Harvard, at best will field another scrappy unit that will have to fight to keep itself out of the Ivy League cellar...