Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...absolutely insane," said an aide, "but he just can't stop." Estes started talking to mechanics in an airport hangar, kept it up from supermarket to street corner for 4½-hours. Then, with a quick stop to vote at the Lookout Mountain schoolhouse above Chattanooga, he flew back to Washington...
Others at this protest gathering include Leo Cherne, chairman of the International Rescue Committee, who arrived last Saturday from Budapest, and former Ambassador Angier Biddle Duke, committee president, who flew from Austria Wednesday. Admiral Richard E. Byrd, honorary chairman, and General William Donovan, chairman of the national committee, will also speak...
...Sultan's indiscretion played right into the plotters' hands. The Sultan's French advisers persuaded him that the French, already miffed, would be even more hurt if the rebels flew with him to Tunis in his private Super-Constellation. The Sultan saw the point. At the airport he explained his delicate problem to the rebel leaders, then took off without them...
Within 48 hours after Jordan's election of an anti-West, pro-Nasser Parliament, Nasser's No. soldier, Major General Abdel Hakim Amer, flew into Jordan's capital city of Amman. He quickly negotiated a pact to align Jordan's army, alongside those of Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia, under Amer's command in case of war with Israel. The reaction of Israel was swift. Premier David Ben-Gurion proclaimed a partial mobilization of Israel's armed forces, as "a precautionary measure and to safeguard the security of Israel's borders and border...
...discords back home in The Netherlands (TIME, Oct. 29), Prince Bernhard, seeming to be enjoying every moment of his bachelor vacation away from Queen Juliana, concentrated on donning a life preserver at Jacksonville. Fla. An able airman and best-known jet pilot among Europe's royalty, Bernhard then flew off to the aircraft carrier Forrestal for an informal two-day fling with the U.S.'s Atlantic Fleet...