Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last week, only a few days after Henry Kissinger and North Viet Nam's Le Duc Tho signed in Paris what might be called Cease-Fire II, Thieu gave a showy display of that belief. In the annual South Vietnamese celebration of power known as Armed Forces Day, jet fighters whistled overhead while tanks, self-propelled artillery and armed amphibious vehicles thundered past the reviewing stands on Saigon's Tran Hung Dao Boulevard. Twenty thousand men-the equivalent of two divisions-marched in the parade. Security was tight: the general public was kept well back from the scene...
...clear until the middle of last week whether he would land on Saturday or Sunday. By choosing the earlier day, Brezhnev allowed himself the luxury of being flown by helicopter to the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., to rest up from jet...
...tourists, will station themselves off the coast of West Africa in the path of totality, while lecturers on board discuss the fine points of the event overhead. The best view should be obtained by seven French, British and American scientists. On June 30, they will board a supersonic Concorde jet in Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands, fly south and intersect the path of totality near Chinguetti. Then they will race the moon's shadow across some 1,700 miles of Africa at nearly Mach 2 speeds (1,300 m.p.h.). Traveling at times only slightly slower than the shadow...
...Angeles-based Motown Industries, one of three record companies in the top 100. Started in Detroit 14 years ago by Berry Gordy Jr., Motown last year parlayed its soul singers (Diana Ross, the Temptations) into sales of $40 million. Next is Chicago's Johnson Publishing Co., Inc. (Ebony, Jet, Black Stars), which, with sales of $23 million, is one of eight publishing firms on the list. The smallest firm is Terry Manufacturing Co. of Roanoke, Ala., which has sales of $ 1,000,000 from women's uniforms and sportswear. The list is dominated by light manufacturing companies...
...author is full of hopeful notions about how it should be filmed. "I don't think wings are desirable in a jet age," he says judiciously. "The music ought to be electronic, by disciples of Boulez, but with bits of Purcell for the Garden of Eden." He sees Adam clearly as stuffy, blond, Nordic-a Law-and-Order man. Eve, "the nicer part of human nature, not altogether reasonable, but charming," should be played by a dark girl, "perhaps a West Indian with a beautiful voice." But he grants that actors and voices might be a problem. "Great personages...