Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After shooting a blistering 16-for-27 from the floor in a first half where the Rams connected on only 11 of 31 field goal attempts, the hoopsters might have been thinking about ending the game in a hurry so they could catch their Delta Tri-Star jet back to Cambridge with time to spare...
...minutes from London, five minutes longer from Paris, which is nearly three hours faster than subsonic travel. The fare is 20% higher than regular first class-and apparently well worth it to globetrotting business executives. The Concorde also does much to ease that bane of long-distance air travel, jet lag. Besides, said one investment banker: "We can leave London at 11:15 a.m., arrive in New York at 10 a.m. and be at work in Manhattan the same morning...
Wachtel, 40, a former Air Force jet instructor-pilot who only started studying immunology in his 30s, does not yet know how the wrong chromosomes acquire the male gene; possibly the error is the result of a mutation or an accidental transfer of genes between chromosomes while the sperm are being produced in the father's testes. In any case, the test has already been put to important clinical use. At New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, for example, a two-year-old child with an enlarged clitoris but a seemingly normal XX chromosome pattern was tested...
...weeks, a crew of red-suited blowout experts battled to cap the wild well. A crane removing a ten-ton piece of wellhead plumbing was smashed like a Tinkertoy, when the gas jet tossed the load into the air. The crew succeeded in diverting the gas to an open pit, where they set it ablaze to prevent an accidental explosion. By the end of September, workers managed to pipe the gas through a purifying plant and into a pipeline, through which it flowed at an uncontrolled rate of 140 million cu. ft. per day. Says Chevron's Exploration Manager...
What happened, Flynt told TIME Chicago Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate, was that he had found God at 40,000 ft.-in a chartered jet somewhere between Denver and Houston. "It was powerful and awesome," says Flynt of the experience. "There I was, representing the pits of what is wrong in our society, and it happened. I'm not ashamed to say that I cried for God." At first, Flynt's wife Althea was also emotional over his conversion, for another reason. "The Lord may have entered your life," she told him, "but $20 million just walked...