Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...president. Through a series of acquisitions, he quickly started transforming the company into a go-go builder of specialized agricultural and petroleum systems for Iron Curtain and Third World countries. By 1972 ISC was engaged in projects in 40 countries, and Kenneally was beginning to climb on the business jet-set circuit. Two years ago he and David Rockefeller, the Chase Manhattan Bank chief, were vice chairmen of the Iran-U.S. Business Council, and Kenneally was also vice chairman of the prestigious National Council for U.S.China Trade...
...tour was expensive ($650,000 put up by corporations, and a third of that by Coca-Cola), and pitifully brief. But last week it seemed as if the Chinese thought the Boston Symphony Orchestra had brought Western classical music intact off their jet. The musicians left behind sets of gut strings, pounds of musical scores and manuscript paper. They also promised to find a way to get some Chinese students to next summer's festival at Tanglewood. Ozawa was careful to point out that this would be a good bargain for both: "Americans need to see the intensity...
Maui is neither easy nor cheap to get to, reports TIME Correspondent William Blaylock. Its Kahului Airport has been deliberately kept small so that it cannot handle direct flights from the mainland; jet passengers must disembark at Honolulu and transfer by cab ($3) or WikiWiki bus to the Aloha or Hawaiian Airlines terminal for the 20-min. onward flight to the Valley Isle, and may then have to rent a car to reach their destinations. Explains Elmer F. Cravalho, 53, the diminutive (5 ft. 5 in.), tough-minded descendant of Portuguese immigrants who has been Maui's mayor...
...might try to resell it in the coming weeks at an even higher price than they paid for it. Says Chairman Orin Atkins, who tends to get so distracted by corporate affairs of state that he forgets to remove his black homburg while being zipped about in the company jet: "What is good for Ashland Oil is good for the country...
...around the sun's largest planet at speeds up to 104,600 km (65,000 miles) per hour, the craft performed nearly flawlessly, its probing eyes and instruments shifting between Jupiter and its moons. As one startling picture after another flashed onto the screens at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, even Cornell's irrepressible Carl Sagan was left nearly speechless. Said he: "This is almost beyond interpretation. There's different chemistry, different physics, different forces at work out there...