Word: ramp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brazil almost turned into a slapstick comedy worthy of the Marx brothers. When the big presidential jet, Air Force One, set down at the airport of the unfinished capital city of Brasilia, a ground crew began unrolling a huge red carpet, miscalculated the distance and arrived at the ramp of the plane with a dismaying roll left over. For a moment it looked as though the President of the U.S. might have to hurdle the carpet before he set foot on Brazilian soil, but an enterprising MATS ground crewman saved the situation by quickly cutting off the extra roll with...