Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turning some of Egypt's T-345 against the defenders. Egypt fought back mostly with windy communiques ("We have annihilated the invasion forces"), a few ineffectual air sorties at Tel Aviv, and a tragicomic attempt by an Egyptian frigate to shell Haifa. The ship was crippled by Israeli aircraft rockets, ran up its white flag. The bemused Egyptian didn't even scuttle his ship, and it was towed into port while Israelis cheered from harbor rooftops...
...invasion front. From Paris with French accreditation came a planeload of journalists including 32-year-old brunette Brigitte Friang, a heroine of the French World War II resistance known as "Ma dame Parachute." She carried an official letter authorizing her to make parachute jumps from military aircraft in the combat area-if she could get there...
...time Nixon's second tour ended, some of the reporters who had started out openly hostile had a new impression. Riding in his United Air Lines DC-6B, the "Dick Nixon Special," they were astonished by the thoroughness and efficiency of the operation.* At the back of the aircraft there was a private cabin serving as the candidate's office; there was also a work area, with typewriters and a duplicating machine, for his staff. At times the staff numbered 13, including two secretaries, two press aides, a tour manager and a doctor. A corps of advance...
...Netherlands (TIME, Oct. 29), Prince Bernhard, seeming to be enjoying every moment of his bachelor vacation away from Queen Juliana, concentrated on donning a life preserver at Jacksonville. Fla. An able airman and best-known jet pilot among Europe's royalty, Bernhard then flew off to the aircraft carrier Forrestal for an informal two-day fling with the U.S.'s Atlantic Fleet...
Israel went under its first country-wide blackout since the armistice of eight years ago, but there was no air raid alert. An Israeli spokesman said that three Russian-built Egyptian jets were downed, while the Egyptians claimed seven Israeli aircraft...