Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet jet experts faced a serious problem: despite the use of grain alcohol, an old but effective deicer, the windshields of MIG-25 Foxbat interceptors were icing up. What had gone wrong? The answer, according to Lieut. Viktor Ivanovich Belenko: Soviet crew chiefs on the ground were drinking the grain alcohol to relieve Siberian boredom and surreptitiously replacing the liquid with water...
Seen from 27,000 feet, through the windows of the British-made Trident jet that the Chinese provided for the trip, the majesty and mystery of the Himalayas extend into snowcapped infinity. We glided over the headwaters of the great Mekong and Salween rivers, then followed the Tsangpo River, which is the source for the Brahmaputra in India. Near the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, the mountains rise brown, harsh and uninhabited from a narrow valley that grudgingly spreads to a width of a mile at the airfield where we touched down...
...Poblete, 20, a native of Manila who was skyjacked by Filipinos last April on a flight out of Hong Kong. Said a stewardess on the same flight: "The leader kissed us before we left. I already miss him." A French woman, released by the skyjackers of the Air France jet just before the Israeli rescue at Entebbe thought the terrorists had been "wonderful." In another skyjacking, a steward liked his Arab captors so much that he accepted an invitation to stay on as a guest of a hijacker. Later, the steward changed his mind...
Last month's hijacking of a TWA jet by Croatian terrorists produced a blizzard of passenger testimonials to the humanitarianism, calmness and intelligence of the captors. "I realized there was a lot to admire in all of them," said Los Angeles TV Consultant Rudy Bretz. "They were idealists who proved that they had a just cause." Even the pilot was so pleased with the performance of the lone female hijacker, Julienne Busic, in preventing panic, that he gave her a big hug as police took her away...
Alex Vik, the team captain and reigning Norwegian Amateur champion, was low man for the Crimson with a 78, five strokes behind medalist Tom Day. Vik, who finished eighth in the European Amateur this summer at Graz, Austria, will jet to Andalusia next week for the World Amateur Championship held over the Penina golf course in Portugal. Golfers from 60 nations will participate...