Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...season's noisiest courtship approached a quiet wedding. After nearly seven bumpy months of stops & starts, separations & reunions, rumors & denials, and considerable mixing & marching by relatives, ex-King Michael of Rumania and Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma flew down to Athens from Geneva to get it done in private. Announced the Royal Palace: Roman Catholic Anne would positively marry Greek Orthodox Michael this week in the Greek Orthodox Church. Sole witnesses to be present: the royal families, the Greek Premier, and the Foreign Minister and his wife...
...said he had had enough. When the Gimo appealed to him in the name of their old friendship, asked him to continue as Premier, Chang answered: "Friendship is friendship, and business is business. This is business-and I can't bear it any longer." The following day he flew home to Chungking for a visit with his aged mother...
Marriage Revealed. Colonel Bernt Balchen, 48, polar-exploring airman (he flew Admiral Byrd through Antarctica in 1929), wartime command pilot on Scandinavian missions for the U.S. Strategic Air Forces; and Bess Engelbrechtsen, 26, Oslo journalist who helped publish an underground newspaper during the Nazi occupation; he for the second time, she for the first; on Feb. 26; in Oslo...
Neutron Country. All winter, Dr. John Simpson of the University of Chicago's Institute for Nuclear Studies flew back & forth between the northern U.S. and Lima, Peru, in a Navy Bag packed with special instruments. He was hunting neutrons, those subtle particles that slip into atomic nuclei and often disrupt them with bangs of radiation. He found plenty of neutrons. The higher he flew the more he found. They were not invaders from space, his studies told him, but were spattered out of atmospheric nuclei struck by cosmic rays...
...temperate zone, Dr. Simpson found, the neutrons are thicker than in the tropics. This is because cosmic rays are charged particles (probably protons), and are therefore herded away from the equator by the earth's magnetic field. As Dr. Simpson's plane flew north, he could tell its latitude fairly accurately by his neutron-counting instruments. But he would not say whether variations in the "neutron field" could be used to steer guided missiles around the earth. "This question," he said, "is being investigated...