Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When we boarded a spanking new Garuda Indonesian Airways jet, the diplomats were uncomfortably outnumbered by some 40 newsmen. Only India and Iran sent their ambassadors; Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, New Zealand and Nigeria sent lower-level dignitaries. The U.S. and the Soviet Union declined, as did the Common Market countries, Australia, and even such close
Once in a blue moon the International School of America makes its existence known in such a mysterious manner. It is a 15-year-old program that travels around the world for a year by jet, carries a three-member faculty and 30 students, who live with native families enroute, and are given a full year's academic credit by most American universities, including Harvard...
...grad student at the Harvard Education School, I put together a program for which I could find no precedent. I studied one special school that traveled by ship to various distant ports, but it seemed to me that more of the world could be explored by going by jet, and living not in a stateroom or hotel, but with native people the way they really live...
...quality of French technology, he arrived for his six-day Bicentennial visit aboard a sleekly beautiful Concorde SST that had flown from Paris in a mere three hours and 37 minutes (only two days afterward, the Federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the supersonic jet could begin commercial service to Dulles International Airport this week on a 16-month trial basis). His lissomely beautiful wife Anne-Aymone was a movable feast of French high fashion, showing off no fewer than 14 Diors, Chanels, Courrèges and the like during their brief stay...
...Fifth Avenue boutique into an identical triplet of his Rome and Milan extravaganzas-all mirrors, brass and thick beige carpet. Mario of Florence, who sells women's shoes at from $82 to $420 a pair, operates out of a grand salon that could have been lifted from a jet-age Florentine palazzo. Roberta di Camerino's place, which specializes in sportswear and $200 velvet handbags, has the piny élan of a ski shop at Cortina d'Ampezzo. Bookseller Angelo Rizzoli (who sells magazines, newspapers and records in many languages, as well as lithographs that range...