Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact be far ahead. Fully 5,000 Filipinos jammed the airport just after dawn one day last week to welcome him. As the door of the 707 opened, a solitary tenor launched into the opening verse of a ballad commissioned for the occasion. The warrior emerged from the jet, paused, then strutted down the steps to the strains of The Muhammad Ali March...
...give the event a patriotic motif, great swatches of red, white and blue carpeting were laid over the tiled floor in the huge basement of the Sheraton-Park Hotel. Gleaming like a Cartier jewel, a scale model of a General Dynamics F-16 jet fighter slowly revolved on a glass-enclosed turntable; beneath its wings rested such accessories as Walleye and Sidewinder missiles, tubular pods of radar equipment and bomb clusters...
...York Jet second-string Quarterback Al Woodall is out for the season with an injured knee...
...York Jet Safety Steve Tannen, out for the season with an injured shoulder...
...word and the seat of his pants, Theroux has paid nostalgic homage to the pre-jet era, when men optimistically hoped to bind up the world with bands of steel. He also offers a reminder of how close they came to succeeding. If people rarely have the time, inclination or endurance to travel this way any more, Theroux suggests, the loss is theirs. To see the world slowly is to see oneself clearly. "After all," he concludes, "the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home...