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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...April 1952, Captain Burn was piloting another Pan Am plane, en route to New York from Puerto Rico, when it crashed into the sea, killing 52. He was charged with "questionable flying technique" by the Civil Aeronautics Board, left Pan Am two week...
...among the grim, worried satellite leaders who journeyed to Moscow for Stalin's funeral was Klement Gottwald, 56, President of Czechoslovakia, chairman and secretary general of the Czechoslovak Communist Party. Of all Western Communists, Gottwald stood closest to new Soviet Boss Malenkov during the funeral ceremonies; only Chou En-lai of Red China stood closer. Although, in Moscow's view, Gottwald was merely a tried and trusty puppet, to the Czechs he was an absolute boss and tyrant. He had in his hands the government, the party, the army, the police. Four months ago he had hanged...
...Foreigner. A few steps behind walked the new Premier, Malenkov, in a huge black coat with grey fur collar. On his left, in a position of singular honor, strode not a Russian but a foreigner-Premier Chou En-lai of Red China, representing Mao. Flanking them walked the rest of Moscow's hierarchy, and behind them the diplomats and the plenipotentiaries of the satellites-Czechoslovakia's Gottwald, Hungary's Rakosi, Poland's Bierut and others. The procession halted and the pallbearers, headed by Malenkov, gently moved the coffin from the carriage. Silently the new leaders...
...En route home from Korea, Ike asked for a meeting with MacArthur...
Cross Purposes. In Richmond, Sergeant Luther Seldon Jr. arrived home on a 30-day furlough from Munich to surprise his wife, found that she was en route to Germany to surprise...