Word: tu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wayne Parrish was the first Western newsman to confirm that the Russians had converted their TU-104, the Tupolev medium jet bomber, into a commercial air transport. From Moscow last winter he was the first to report on how the Russians were trying to raise their airline standards to qualify for international competition. In 1953 he scored a beat with details of West Germany's plans to revive Lufthansa, the German airline. In 1954. after the fiasco of the British Comet jetliners, he created a sensation in Britain by reporting that BOAC had contracted to buy U.S. Douglas...
...President Eisenhower chatting with Soviet Premier Bulganin at Geneva, and inside the Reds are on their best brochuremanship. Starting off with a plea by Bulganin for "mutual understanding," U.S.S.R. goes on to present an interesting if rose-tinted peek at Soviet life, with articles on Russia's new TU-104 jet airliner, pictures of Moscow's famed ballet, stories on peaceful use of the atom in Russia (including the building of an atom-powered icebreaker), on Red farming, athletics, movies, some poetry, a few cartoons...
French record fans were quivering last week to the cacophonous cadences of a Gallicized rock-'n'-roll number named Dis-Moi Qu'Tu M'Aimes Rock (Tell Me That You Love Me Rock). Ostensibly written by a U.S. rock 'n' roller named Mig Bike, the song is actually the latest and loudest product of a reedy, bespectacled 24-year-old named Michel Legrand. Although the people who buy his records have only recently become aware that he exists, Composer-Conductor Legrand has in the last three years become one of the most successful popular...
...Lear: "Of course the plane is on the embargo list. All aviation equipment is on the NATO embargo list, including General Twining's DC-6." From what he had seen of Red equipment, added Lear, the Russians could probably use some of his flight aids. On their prize Tu-104 jet transport, for example, the auto pilot was "right out of our old B17. You can buy one in any junk market for six dollars." But, said Lear, he was not planning to sell "a single bolt or screw" to the Russians...
...TRANSPORT will be offered, to airlines in competition with U.S. craft. Russians are listing twin-jet TU-104 at $2,000,000, including spare parts, v. about $6,000,000 for U.S. Boeing 707 or Douglas DC-8. Russian transport is smaller, slower, shorter-ranged than U.S. planes and only slightly pressurized, but airmen expect dollar-short foreign airlines to buy some...