Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Margulis' main job was to prepare Hughes' food. But he also acted as his bodyguard and during the last three years, when Hughes was no longer able to walk, lifted him whenever he needed to be moved. It was Margulis who placed the emaciated Howard Hughes aboard the jet ambulance for his last flight?a scene re-created on TIME'S cover by Artist Jim Sharpe...
...brought in and stationed at Hatchfield airport. [He] had lined up a young English jet pilot, Tony Blackburn, to fly with Hughes. No one seriously thought that Hughes actually proposed to handle the plane in the takeoff and landing; he could hold down the copilot's seat and take over the controls for a while. When this was diplomatically spelled out, he objected strenuously. "What do you mean, I fly copilot?" he complained. "I've never flown copilot in my life...
...Milky Way galaxy, M87 is a great spherical island of billions of stars apparently in the midst of a tremendous upheaval. Photographs of M87 taken through the 200-in. telescope atop California's Palomar Mountain seem to show (top) that the galaxy is shooting into space an enormous jet of material, equal to the mass of countless suns...
...picture of the distant galaxy, taken by Hale Observatories Astronomer Halton Arp, reveals that M87 is even more remarkable than scientists had thought. The product of computer-enhancement techniques developed for NASA by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Arp's picture shows that M87 is ejecting not merely a single stream of matter but a whole series of dense, luminous objects (bottom). Says Arp: "The galaxy must have undergone an explosion or a succession of explosions that threw them out at high velocity. The most intriguing question is: What will they develop into...
...lives well off the fruits of all this labor. He owns a house in St.-Moritz, rents others in St.-Tropez and Anif, near Salzburg. After his back surgery, he can again pilot a jet (a new Dassault Falcon 10). "The joy of flying has nothing to do with speed," he remarks. "You prepare and do well at the moment. There is enormous satisfaction in organization. That is why I don't play cards. I am afraid when you cannot foresee the outcome...