Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When English Rock Superstar Rod Stewart travels in his executive jet, he takes along a retinue of 43 musicians, managers and publicists who indulge his every whim. When he arrives, he is met by a cozily appointed limousine and, invariably, an assortment of cozily appointed groupies. His singles like Maggie May and albums like Sing It Again, Rod (his latest, with 700,000 sales in two months) are regular chartbusters. He derives enough additional money from concerts (a recent month-long tour of the U.S. grossed $500,000) to qualify easily for millionaire status. When he takes time...
...nation's second largest foreign source of oil, kicked up prices 56%, and Nigeria announced that it would soon post an increase.) So the U.S. must take drastic conservation measures, and some already are beginning. With Government encouragement, three airlines-American, TWA and United-agreed to save jet fuel by canceling 82 flights daily. Round-trip flights between New York and Chicago will be reduced to 55 daily from 70; Philadelphia-to-Los Angeles round trips will be cut to three daily from...
...addition, the SAM6 is equipped with a heat sensor that can guide it to the aircraft's hot jet exhaust pipe. Finally, in its beam-riding mode, the SAM6 can be directed by its operator, who keeps the aiming dot of an electronic gun sight on the attacking aircraft. That is all it takes to send the missile accurately along a radar beam to the target. To make matters even worse for the enemy, the frequency of the missile's radar systems can be changed quickly, making it difficult to jam or confuse them with electronic countermeasures...
Under a bright moon, civilian and military police with dogs patrolled the edges of Pease Air Force Base in New Hampshire last week, shooing away the curious townspeople drawn by the steady roar of big jet engines. "The only other time you hear that much activity at night is when the reservists fly in," said Bob James, who owns a gas station near the end of the runway. As he spoke, KC-135 tanker jets labored off the runway, then banked right toward the nearby Atlantic Ocean. During the day, half a dozen blue-and-white Boeing 747s had shuttled...
...Soviet equipment came from front-line units in Eastern Europe, according to one analyst. It included at least 600 surface-to-air missiles, some 1,200 tanks-light PT-76 tanks aboard planes, heavy T-62 and T-55 tanks on ship-and about 300 MIG-21 jet fighters in crates for reassembly in Egypt and Syria...