Word: bourget
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles. Morning after the old comrades' dinner, the President flew in his Boeing 707 to the gleaming city that the Allies, for all their discords, had liberated in a brilliant campaign. There, waiting at Paris' Le Bourget Airport, stood erect General Charles de Gaulle, France's Man of Liberation and Man of Recovery, and now a proud and difficult ally often billed as NATO's No.1 problem. When the President all but sprinted down the ramp. De Gaulle stepped forward and said in English, "Hello, how are you?" Said De Gaulle later in a formal greeting...
...secret policeman in alongside Ike and Chancellor Adenauer, so that on the 45-minute trip from the airport the two statesmen would not have to sit in silence because neither speaks the other's language. Charles de Gaulle planned to meet the presidential jet at Le Bourget and escort Ike up the Champs-Elysees. Meticulously checking all the arrangements himself, De Gaulle scribbled beside one scheduled event, "Not good enough...
...lawnmowers to and from his plane; another, wise to the ways of city traffic, tried roller skates, but did not do too well. Ace Racer Stirling Moss hopped into a Renault-Dauphine, roared out to the airport, put his car on a Silver City Airways "carferry," landed at Le Bourget and zipped into Paris...
...clock one morning last week, France's Premier Pierre Mendès-France drove through deserted Parisian streets to Le Bourget Airport. He was bound for another trouble spot-Tunis, the capital of strife-torn Tunisia. Having made a "cruel" peace in Indo-China because French colonialism had missed its opportunity there, he was determined that France should not make the same mistake in North Africa...
Hospitality Repaid. In Poland, the Daladier-Soustelle-Lebon party got a warm reception. For them, the Polish press had none but friendly words. Last week a Soviet-made twin-engine Ilyushin-12 set them down again at Paris' Le Bourget field. They were loaded with dirndled dolls, folklore records, candy and brief cases bulging with notes...