Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real goldmine in the tabloid may be The Citizen's Companion, a listing of meetings and demonstrations to make if you're a political activist with a Lear jet. One example is a birthday party for The Citizens for Political Action featuring Eugene McCarthy, I.F. Stone, Reps. Michael Harrington (D-Mass.) and Robert Drinan (D.-Mass.), held here in Boston just last week. (You missed it.) Or there is an address to write if you're interested in helping the Institute for Policy Studies get a special prosecutor appointed to look into the murder of Orlando Letelier, the late Chilean...
...attitude of Schleyer's kidnapers hardened in early October, shortly after Tokyo capitulated to terrorists who had skyjacked a Japan Air Lines jet to Bangladesh and demanded freedom for nine imprisoned "comrades" and $6 million in ransom. After the skyjacking last week, Schmidt began meeting around the clock with the Cabinet and two crisis groups that he had formed to handle the Schleyer kidnaping. As of early this week, his government was still refusing to buckle to the terrorists' demands. Although he has taken a hard line on terrorists, the Christian Democratic opposition has been accusing Schmidt...
...instrument, while Lenny conducted his Three Meditations from "Mass" for Violoncello and Orchestra, an episodic piece that gave listeners a chance to hear Slava produce his exquisite cello sound, to watch his left hand flick across the finger board, his right arm streak like a bowing jet. Both programs were enlivened by the now familiar spectacle of Rostropovich leaping from his podium to kiss and hug every musician within reach...
...smooth ride have given it the nickname "the poor man's 747." Before buying it, however, Eastern wants to be certain that the Airbus will match under U.S. operating conditions the economies reported by European airlines. Airbus-Industrie claims that the plane's two huge fan jet engines are terrific fuel conservers, burning approximately 25% less fuel per seat-mile than do the three engines of such competing jets as Lockheed's L-1011 TriStar. Eastern also wants to make sure that spare parts will be freely available across the Atlantic-although parts should...
Boeing, McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed, which have long considered the U.S. plane market their own, have reacted to this new European threat by bad-mouthing the Airbus as ill suited to the needs of U.S. airlines. Despite its size, the Airbus is basically a medium-range jet, and American planemakers contend that there are no routes in the U.S. where traffic would be heavy enough to fill a profitable percentage of its seats consistently. Eastern seems willing to take the gamble, however, and U.S. planemakers are apparently afraid that other European jets may eventually follow the Airbus into the American...