Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end Stevenson flew eastward to his Libertyville farm, radiant with satisfaction over the way things are going for the Democrats in the West. His estimate of his week's pulse-taking: Montana, "very, very optimistic"; Idaho, "reassuring"; Washington, good prospects for the ticket "and especially for Senator Magnuson"; Oregon, desperate Republicans are sending for Ike; California, "always hard to predict, but I am much encouraged...
...104th through to the Rhine and into Germany. He won his medals-Legion of Honor, Croix de guerre with palm, Bronze Star with cluster. At war's end, when the 104th linked up with the Soviet forces in Germany, Lieut. Colonel Hoegh was in a group that flew behind the Russian lines in a Piper Cub to establish liaison with Marshal Konev's advancing army...
...public funds (though they were federal funds). There was an uproar when the state purchasing agent made a special trade-in deal, avoiding the $2,000 limit on the prices for a state auto, to get the governor an air-conditioned Oldsmobile sedan. Another outcry came when he flew to a former lowans' picnic in Long Beach, Calif, in a National Guard plane, and went from there to the Republican National Convention at his own expense. The Des Moines Ministerial Association was apoplectic when he accepted as a gift to the state the grand champion calf...
...flag of Japan's Rising Sun flew in Peking last week alongside the five-star banner of Communist China. Below, on the stone gates of a huge hall built by the Russians two years ago to house their industrial exhibition, the legend "Chinese-Russian Friendship" had been scraped out, and the Chinese had diligently chiseled instead: "China-Japan Amity." Peking, exploiting any opportunity to loosen Japan's ties with the West, had decided to make a big thing of a Japanese trade fair, the first since the prewar days when North China was the biggest market in imperial...
...centers far above and beyond the border. Critics greeted the show with salvos of praise that made it the biggest Mexican art event since the 1949 retrospective of another painter, Diego Rivera. Paris' Museum of Modern Art Director Jean Cassou fired off an urgent telegram, then flew to Mexico City to see for himself. One Californian sent in his $4,000 check for one painting, a leader of Ft. Worth's oiligarchy reserved another four paintings, and U.S. museums hurried to get in bids. Focus of all the excitement: Mexican Muralist and Painter Rufino Tamayo, 56, today hailed...