Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Manila, Bell flew to Singapore later in the week, went up the road to Kuala Lumpur, past villages circled with barbed wire, past check points and roadblocks set up against Commu nist terrorists. He arrived in Kuala Lumpur just as a terrorist hideout was uncovered only a two-iron shot from the ninth hole of the exclusive Selangor Golf Club (see "Ruining the Rough" in FOREIGN NEWS...
Before he could even get his feet under the desk, Sandys flew off to Washington, the first ranking member of the new British government to visit the U.S. His mission: to talk with Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson about sharing the cost and the knowledge on guided missiles, which is where Sandys plans to concentrate Britain's new defense efforts. A missiles buff since he commanded Britain's first experimental AA rocket regiment in World War II, and later the man who sold his father-in-law, Winston Churchill, on wiping out the German V-2 factory...
...supply its East Coast markets. Planned employment by 1958: 5,000. From the start. Kaiser realized that one of its biggest problems was, as one Kaiser official put it, "to prepare these people for something which is going to change the whole pattern of their lives." The company flew in a squad of public-relations men from the West Coast, sent them on a seven-week tour of hillside hamlets with names like Pee Wee, Rocky Knob, Gay Given, Frozen Camp. At each stop Kaiser's emissaries showed three movies (a cartoon, a western, a film on Kaiser Aluminum), served...
...brief mutiny in the Saudi army instigated by Egyptian-trained officers. Last June 4,000 workers struck at Aramco just before Saud paid a formal visit, greeted him shouting of "oppression" by foreign imperialists. Saud's police beat several demonstrators to death with palm stems. Then, when Nasser flew to Dhahran for a conference, Saud was annoyed to find that the cheers for Nasser were far louder than for himself...
...Left Out. In Cairo last week. Nasser acted like a man frantically afraid he was being left out. With Saud about to arrive, he hastily called his ally, Premier Sabri el Assali of Syria. Young King Hussein flew over from Jordan. Nasser's purpose: to talk them into replacing the subsidy Britain has for so long paid Jordan to support its Arab legion and base troops there. Nasser obviously feared that, with U.S. help under the Eisenhower doctrine. Saud might do it alone, forming a U.S.-backed partnership with Jordan that had no place for Nasser. It took Nasser...