Word: flags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pictures of General George C. Marshall's funeral, airship the developed film from Washington to Minneapolis that same night? The A.P. could and did. Next morning at 10:20, right on schedule, five big Star presses rolled. On Page One: a five-column, four-color picture showing the flag-draped casket and its uniformed pallbearers, the pearl-grey columns of Washington Cathedral, the green trees and the blue...
Screening the Leyte landings were two great U S. fleets: the Seventh, attached to MacArthur under Vice Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid. and the Third, reporting to Admiral Chester Nimitz 5,000 miles away in Hawaii and carrying the flag of Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey...
...three-tier" system (economy, tourist, first class) with the lowest fares pegged as much as 20% below tourist rates. Other lines felt that fare schedules are already complex enough, gave the British plan no support. Ranged against any immediate fare cut were some of the small national flag airlines, which are government-owned and heavily subsidized; they operate at a loss already and fear that lower rates would only push them farther into the red. Said one delegate from a small national airline: "If economy fares were approved and tourist fares retained, my company would have to operate...
...floodlit high-school football field in Rochester, Ind. (pop. 5,000) as "Charley Halleck Day" sizzled to a close with an old-fashioned fish fry. Heading the well-wishers of Republican House Leader Halleck on his silver anniversary in Congress was touring Vice President Richard M. Nixon. At the flag-draped rostrum, facing 15,000 Hoosiers brimful of yellow perch and Republican politics, Nixon, after saluting Halleck, the crowd and the perch, said: "Now, I want to relate the international situation to this meeting we're having in Indiana." That relationship never became completely clear, but Nixon...
...this expectation, the U.S.S.R. was already busily constructing prepared bargaining positions. Last week, as Communist East Germany celebrated its tenth anniversary-and cockily plastered West Berlin elevated railway stations with the new East German hammer-and-compass flag-Russia's First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov was on hand to announce that Moscow would demand that the East Germans be seated at any summit meeting dealing with Germany. And in the U.N., the Russians were busily beating the drum for the "general disarmament plan" unveiled by Khrushchev last month. Last week, after maneuvering the General Assembly into agreeing...