Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every Wednesday morning, Aeroflot flight 233 from Moscow touches down at Luxembourg International Airport. The 80-passenger Tupolev jet usually disgorges a curiously small contingent of passengers-rarely more than 15-from the Soviet capital. A few hours later, perhaps another ten or 15 passengers will embark for the flight back to Moscow, frequently taking with them enormous quantities of inspection-free diplomatic baggage. Their comings and goings excite little attention, except for the scrutiny of two Western intelligence agents assigned to watch each arriving and departing face. Reason: the Aeroflot flights to and from Luxembourg...
...walk-on part at Los Angeles International Airport went smoothly enough; walking off the jumbo jet in London, however, proved to be Actress Rita Hayworth's undoing. When her plane landed at Heathrow Airport after the ten-hour flight, the flaming redhead star of such '40s films as Gilda and Blood and Sand, now 57, flatly refused to disembark. "Miss Hayworth started shouting and waving her arms about," said an airline official. "She did not want to leave the plane." When she finally agreed to go more than a half-hour later, aides quickly spirited her away...
...postscript: Nickel returned to London by subsonic jet, taking 9½ hr. door to door, including stops in Vienna and Amsterdam. The Concorde carries 100 passengers from London to Bahrain, but only 71 the other way; takeoff temperatures, head winds and weather delays in Europe require more fuel...
...missiles and bombers. Of this number, only 1,320 could carry MIRVS-clusters of independently aimed warheads. But negotiators have not been able to agree on how the limits should be applied to two new weapons systems: 1) the U.S. cruise missile, a 1,200-2,000-mile-range jet-propelled bomb that can be launched from an airplane, ship or submarine, and 2) the Soviet Backfire bomber, whose 6,000-mile range can be extended so that it can reach the U.S. and return by means of mid-air refueling...
...French thus are supposed to devise substitutes for the ubiquitous anglicisms that comprise a good part of their everyday vocabulary: such non-bons mots as bestseller, sexy, blue jeans, bowling, gadget, checkup, checkout, jumbo jet, baby sitter, nonstop, dead heat (pronounced did it), hot dog, hijack, racket, zoom, jukebox, call girl, marketing, merchandising and leasing. Evidemment, the government will need un computer -preferred usage: ordinateur-to track down the offending business man, a designation that is not precisely conveyed by its closest French equivalent, l'homme d'affaires, and even less by la femme d'affaires...