Word: klm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leaving the frustrated and fuming Belgians behind, Hammarskjold turned down the offer of a Belgian jet to Leopoldville, boarded instead a KLM DC-7 to neutral Brazzaville, across the river in French Congo. Crossing the river in a launch, he soon was confronting the Congolese Cabinet. Prodded by sharp telegrams from Lumumba, the Cabinet insistently demanded that Hammarskjold use force if necessary to clear the Belgian troops out of Katanga...
...longer-range version of the most experienced of jets." Continental's Chicago-Los Angeles flight advertises that only its "golden jet has a cabin crew of live," promises at mealtime that "the hostesses will slip on gold smocks, swish up and down the aisle" to serve the passengers. KLM proffers "real china at dinner." Air-India puffs its coming jet service as "the airline that treats you like a maharajah . . . Ask any potentate...