Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...situation. Twice a day he conferred with Secretary of State Dulles over a maximum-security telephone line. At the Bon Air Hotel a few miles away, Army Signal Corpsmen decoded incoming intelligence estimates and sped them to the office. Courier planes dipped into nearby Bush Field with locked and guarded leather diplomatic pouches. Grudgingly aware that from all this was coming a set of certain decisions, newsmen gave up on their "Should he return?" stories, relaxed and enjoyed the combination of a busy presidential week and vacation under a southern...
...trip itself, said Bush, was uneventful. They maintained an altitude of between 500 and 1,000 ft., were waved at by groups of people, finally put down on an unused airstrip at the confluence of two unidentified rivers near Changsha in Hunan province...
After more than 300 uneventful round trips between Caracas and New York, Venezuelan Airline Pilot Henry Peter Bush, 42, a bachelor and an uncured romanticist, was bored. He wanted to give up flying some day and write adventure stories. He took his accumulated leave and set off on a round-the-world trip (Europe, the Middle East. India). Last week he turned up in Tokyo with a headline-making story right out of Terry and the Pirates. He had just come back, he said, from flying 350 miles into Red China to bring out the 13-year...
...Airman Bush said the adventure began when a fellow passenger on a Bangkok-Hong Kong commercial airline flight confided to him: "I've been contacted to find a pilot to fly someone out of China." The passenger, said Bush, turned out to be a British travel agent, based in Bangkok, by the name of Mike Sullivan. Pilot Bush and his new friend continued in time-tested fashion: they met a "beautiful Chinese girl" in a Hong Kong restaurant, and she begged them to undertake an "errand of mercy" to save the boy, who was being held as a hostage...
River estuary to the tiny Portuguese colony of Macao, and before anyone could say "Where's the Dragon Lady?" found themselves heading for Red China in an ancient, twin-engined amphibian PBY, Bush piloting, Travel Agent Sullivan at his side...