Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end Nixon and party-including Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton, Congressman Charles C. Diggs Jr. (one of the three Negroes in the House) and Walter A. Gordon, Negro governor of the Virgin Islands-flew into Accra, capital of the Gold Coast, to represent the U.S. at ceremonies marking the transformation of that British colony into the independent Commonwealth State of Ghana...
...guests, Nasser put on a pointed display of his 4th Armored Division-four serried ranks of Russian tanks, self-propelled artillery, tank destroyers and personnel carriers 75 abreast, over which flew a flight of 15 Ilyushin jet bombers and ten MIGs. "You see, we still do have an army," said one Egyptian major. But after 17 hours of talk, including a private talk between Nasser and Saud that lasted until 3 one morning, the conference dissolved in a mist of platitudes...
...PRESIDENCY 'What I'm Going to Do' Into the vortex of the Israel crisis flew the President of the U.S., his forehead deeply furrowed, his mood somber as he alighted from an Air Force Constellation at Washington National Airport in a cold and soaking rain. "This is some weather," he growled to his military and naval aides, hankering back to the vacation he had just cut short in sunny Thomasville, Ga. As he sped off downtown to the White House, Ike huddled down into his tan raincoat, reached often into his left coat pocket for a handkerchief...
...tireless Dag Hammarskjold said he had got Egypt to agree to let the U.N. deploy into the Gaza Strip. The President received a letter from Israel's Ben-Gurion that was considered "constructive," whereupon Israel's Ambassador to the U.S..Abba Eban, flew back from Israel. Dulles held an unusual Sunday conference at his home with congressional leaders, then a few hours later met with Eban. and a new round of diplomacy got under way. But should Israel remain recalcitrant, the President of the U.S. intended-to stand on his demand that Israel...
...tourists, sick of grey winter days, flew to the West Indies in record numbers, the sunny lands of the Caribbean surged with progress, violence and tropical intrigue. In Jamaica, the democratic chieftains of the British Caribbean islands formed a new nation at a significant, heartening, little-noticed conference. In Cuba, a dictator struck out sharply to quell a running revolution that was not yet shaking his regime-but was not slowing down, either. Another dictator, in the Dominican Republic, was caught in a tightening web of evidence in the airplane kidnaping of a Manhattan scholar who criticized...