Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Anglo-French jet has been flying into Washington's Dulles International Airport for a year and a half, but New York had been closed to the plane under the pressure of local civic groups and politicians, who argued it was too noisy. The last barrier fell Oct. 17 when the U.S. Supreme Court denied the Port Authority's request to extend...
...presidential jet took off at 7:30. Sadat traveled in his own compartment, a tastefully decorated section furnished with swivel chairs, two soft corner couches, a TV set and an electronics board that flashed the altitude, speed, time and weather. On the walls were satellite photographs of Egypt, including one of the Sinai Peninsula. On the desk was a vase of yellow flowers...
While CBS was preparing its interviews, NBC was also trying valiantly to collar Sadat. But the network's man in Cairo, John Palmer, was out of the country and could not get a plane back in time for the Monday newscast. "We were sunk by a goddam jet," grumbled a producer at NBC. (The network got to Sadat only in time for the following night's broadcast.) NBC did manage a satellite conversation on Monday between Begin and Anchorman John Chancellor, taped only minutes after the Israeli had finished with Cronkite. NBC had to borrow the same hotel...
...abrasives-grinding materials essential for all elements of the metal-bending business. The company has great hopes for experiments now being conducted in its new laboratory near Niagara Falls, where it hopes to produce materials that will replace the rare metals that endure high temperatures in turbines and jet engines...
BORN. To Marisa Berenson Randall, 30, jet-setting actress (Barry Lyndon, Cabaret), and James Randall, 33, a rivet manufacturer: their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Starlite Melody...