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...fought his superiors in World War II when they tried to fob him off with draft duties instead of action. "He became a little bit of a nuisance," admitted Field Marshal Sir Edmund Ironside. When France tottered, Wintle became exasperated at official in action; he called an airfield, told them he was speaking for the Air Ministry, and ordered a plane readied to fly him to Bordeaux. His plan: to get his French mili tary friends to fly the French air force out to Britain. Hauled up before an air commodore for this escapade, Wintle whipped out his revolver...
Sixth Day. In a final series of meetings, it took the Big Four nearly all day Saturday to agree on the final wording. At last, while Ike's plane waited on the airfield, they approved the communiqué, which instructed the foreign ministers to consider all the proposals mentioned at a new meeting in October and referred the disarmament proposals to the U.N. subcommittee meeting in late August. Minutes later, Ike was at the airport...
...keep working. There is some local resentment of the newcomers' all-work-and-no-play attitude, and radio programs carry plenty of anti-immigrant jokes, but government officials are well aware that Venezuela has the immigrants to thank whenever a new building, a new road or a new airfield is completed on schedule...
...inspected the National Stud Farm in County Kildare, dined with U.S. Ambassador William Howard Taft III, lunched with President Sean O'Kelly and admired the Dublin statue of Cú Chulainn. the legendary Irish hero. Paris provided the most unusual welcome, however. As the Wagners arrived at Orly airfield, several young girls pushed through the crowd of officials and shed their coats to welcome the mayor in skimpy red, white and blue bathing suits. "Salut, Monsieur le Maire," they screamed, then rushed to cuddle Wagner for the photographers. Mrs. Wagner quickly sized up the situation, firmly disengaged her astonished...
...chartered an Air-India plane (fee $20,000) to take part of their delegation to the Bandung Conference in Indonesia. The four-engined Constellation flew in to Hong Kong from Bangkok on a regular flight, disembarked its passengers, and refueled. During the 80 minutes it stood on the airfield, it was ringed with security guards. Then the charter passengers were whisked in past customs directly to the plane. Chief among the three Chinese delegates were Huang Tso-mei, head of the official New China News Agency in Hong Kong and rated one of the Communists' top agents by Hong...