Word: planes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CREDIT, which was once the sign that a person had trouble meeting his bills, has taken on a glamorous new meaning in recent years. Now a man with a credit card can rent a plane or boat or car, live it up in nightclubs, take a safari to Africa and even get a Kelly Girl for temporary office help. Why? Because of the Credit-Card Game, see BUSINESS...
...last visited Task Force 77 a year ago. Not only were her pilots flying within jet-age spitting distance of Red Chinese airfields, but Midway was having a run of hard luck. One F3H squadron had lost two pilots and three planes in accidents within the week. The day I joined Force 77 the squadron's skipper, Commander Walter Heider of Coronado, Calif., died when his throttle apparently stuck after landing and his plane plunged overboard out of control...
...planes are flying armed only with conventional weapons. "We are not flying loaded for bear, but for rabbit," said one pilot wryly. But on the deck of each of her carriers, right over the "special weapons" bay, stands a single A3D bomber. An armed marine guard stands by to keep inquisitive seamen at a distance. Should the signal come from Washington, the deck beneath the A3D would open, and up would come an elevator to tuck into the plane's belly a nuclear bomb capable of reducing all Peking and its masters to radioactive dust...
...Last week Prime Minister Noon flew to New Delhi with his handsome, Hungarian-born Begum for the first meeting of Prime Ministers of the two countries since 1955. Nehru sprang gallantly forward to retrieve Begum Noon's golden slipper when it fell as she stepped out of the plane. He escorted them to the high-domed Presidential House, and the talks began. The two leaders quickly worked out an agreement to trade several small enclaves along the disputed East Pakistan border "with a view to relieving tension...
When Mike Todd, Liz Taylor's third husband, was killed in a plane crash last May, Debbie and Eddie were on hand to help console her. The Todds and the Fishers had been good friends (although in retrospect last week, Debbie made a fine point to the effect that perhaps they had not really been "good friends" but only "just friends"). When Eddie and Liz were in New York two weeks ago, consolation continued in nightclubs and during a weekend at Grossinger's. After Liz and Eddie finally returned to the coast, there followed a barrage of press...