Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Designated E-4A, the $117 million Doomsday jet is a 231-ft.-long, 425-ton behemoth - the heaviest flying machine anywhere. It is a converted Boeing 747 that bulges and bristles with a mind-stunning array of electronic gadgetry designed to defend the plane and prevent interference with communications. It is also loaded with an equally dazzling array of high-and low-frequency communications devices. Capable of staying aloft for 72 hours, the plane can roam at low or very high altitudes, up to more than 45,000 ft. To keep in touch with U.S. submarines, the craft can unreel...
...President, López Portillo inherits leadership of a nation that is rich in contrast and color but impoverished in terms of national fulfillment. A small percentage of the population is comfortably rich; a large portion is lamentably poor. Lavish playgrounds for international jet-setters exist almost side by side with villages still run by caciques, or chieftains, who seem to belong to the last century...
Even after her liberation, the ordeal of Mme. Claustre continued to rankle in French public opinion. She and her husband, flown by a special Mystère 20 jet sent by Giscard, evaded hordes of newsmen in Paris. The couple immediately checked into a clinic for a series of intensive tests. But many Frenchmen were still asking why the affair had taken so long-and cost so much horror and humiliation-to resolve...
...experience that comes no closer to free flight than watching a rerun of Twelve O'Clock High. But as British Science Writer Peter Haining relates in his delightful chronicle of man-powered flight, a handful in every epoch have defied gravity without the aid of motor or jet...
...prayer for milder weather. This year the prayers were unanswered." The Interstate Commerce Commission directed railroads to give priority to oil tank cars and allowed oil trucks licensed to operate in only one state to cross state lines. The Federal Energy Administration ordered some refineries to cut production of jet fuel so that they can make more heating...