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Word: escorters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Korea, the North Koreans could shoot down another EC-121 any time they wished. The spy flights come within 4½ minutes' flying time of North Korean air bases, which could scramble more than enough MIGS to down the F-4 and F106 jets that are used to escort the spy planes. Protecting the AGERS seems equally futile. Despite contingency plans designed to rescue the spy ships once they are in trouble, the vessels still operate mostly on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Gamble Goes On | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...cooperation of visitors is assumed in this system. If someone is asked to leave, he is expected to do so, or at least to wait quietly until someone calls the police to escort him. The inadequacy of the system was well illustrated last week when a man entering Jordan J rushed the girl on bells and she screamed and fled. He then went into the dining room, stabbed a girl, and ran away...

Author: By Deborah B. Johnson, | Title: Insecurity at the Cliffe | 3/5/1969 | See Source »

Barring a hijacking of her airliner or a breakdown of her police escort, Carol Burnett, the Hasty Pudding Club's Woman of the Year, will arrive at the Pudding Clubhouse at 1:10 p.m. today. Y'all come and say hello...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burnett at Pudding | 2/24/1969 | See Source »

...that the Navy launched its rescue mission immediately after the capture. Two U.S. Navy destroyers, U.S.S. Truxton and U.S.S. Higbee, were ordered to sail to Wonsan. Under heavy air cover and backed up by a U.S. ultimatum to the North Koreans, Higbee was to dash into Wonsan harbor and escort Pueblo to safety. However, noted Cassell, the plan was vetoed by "higher authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Pueblo and LB.J. | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...others should he choose not to run again in 1972-he is, after all, the last male Kennedy of his generation, and on him falls the weight of many and great familial burdens. Some of these responsibilities were apparent last week, when Ted flew down to Washington to escort Ethel Kennedy to the hospital and remained until a caesarean operation was completed and mother and daughter-her eleventh child-were doing well. The following morning Ted accompanied four of Ethel's children to Arlington National Cemetery and knelt beside them at their father's grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: The Distant Horizon | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

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