Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gathering of celebrities or pretenders to that status is complete without the presence of a writer from Women's Wear Daily, the gossipy trade journal of evanescent chic. So when 300 jet setters assembled in Mexico for the opening of a $30 million resort, a by-lined story by Adelita Esterhazy last week dutifully recorded choice bits of fatuousness for WWD readers. But the piece ended on a dark editor's note: before leaving Mexico, "Adelita Esterhazy was walking the beach alone when she was attacked by an iguana. Dr. Eduardo Negrobien was unable to save her. This...
...sure I'll do this forever, but I know I will for at least a few years," Cloherty says. "I like the schedule, hopping by jet from city to city, on for a week or so and off for four days...
...Waiting Jet. Reprisal was swift. The bishop was at home brushing his teeth when police telephoned. "Please prepare yourself for a trip within half an hour," he was told. A jet was waiting at Bilbao's airport to fly the bishop and his vicar general to Rome. Before the government could move, the Spanish hierarchy rallied behind Añoveros. In Bilbao, priests, nuns and lay people by the thousands signed petitions and flocked to see him. "He is a good man," said one elderly Basque. "Good men are rare, and he must stay." Pope Paul interrupted a Lenten...
...even junior high school students took to their heels in ever greater numbers. In Chicago, three boys with perfect timing streaked their high school as the student body rose for the morning national anthem. An adult male streaker whipped up and down the aisles of a Pan American jumbo jet en route from London to New York. Senior Citizen Virgil Cleves, 67, was arrested in Lima, Ohio, for a bare stroll in the public square with equally bare Wanda Gray, 46. He was asking equal time for "snailing," he said, since he was too old to streak. In London...
...halfway to Capetown when his titanium mainmast collapsed. By radio, Tabarly ordered a new spar. Under jury rig, he headed for Rio, 1,200 miles away, to pick it up. The 82-ft. mast, fabricated in Switzerland, had to be cut in two to fit into a French military jet. Meanwhile Blyth, a former paratroop sergeant, was learning that $350,000 worth of sleek boat does not necessarily go fast when manned by a crew of paratroopers with little sailing experience...