Word: plane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very wary and say, 'Watch out. There may be another Freddie Laker.' " Finally, just before midnight Monday, I plopped into seat 21C. For it, I paid $143 -$135 fare, $3 tax, $2 for a hot breakfast and $3 for a cold dinner (no free food on the plane). Over 3,500 miles, that works out to 4? a mile-less than the tolls and gasoline expenses on the New York State Thruway (average: 5.2? a mile). The return flight costs...
...after local authorities have captured the fugitive. He has three lines: "Now we go," which he says to Carruthers as they board an airplane; "State," in answer to a question about where he got his hat; and "You're quite an individual, Kit," as they sit down on the plane...
...alliance's armed forces. Thus U.S. Cobra helicopters, armed with TOW antitank missiles, provided cover for West German tank units and were directed to targets by West German officers. Old tricks were also polished, like dropping a Sheridan light tank from a low-flying C-130 transport plane...
...higher road, paved by Eric Ambler and Graham Greene and improved by Le Carré, leads to an ambiguous plane where neither side has a moral exclusive. The flares of hot and cold wars illuminate enemies with human faces. The agent's mind is as balkanized as the lands he travels; betrayal becomes a way of life. The message no longer echoes national anthems but T.S. Eliot's Gerontion: "Think/ Neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices/ Are fathered by our heroism. Virtues/ Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes...
Still, the plane's British and French makers can take some comfort from having prevailed in the international contretemps. The Concorde could not meet the standards of a 1969 U.S. federal regulation that set maximum noise levels for jets. But the clamor to permit the Concorde into the U.S. was so great that William Coleman, the Ford Administration's Transportation Secretary, decided in 1975 to give the aircraft a 16-month test at Washington's Dulles and New York's John F. Kennedy International airports. Local suits blocked the test at J.F.K., but 100-seat Concordes...