Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN Correspondent John L. I Steele flew home from San Francisco and checked through the West Executive Avenue gate of the White House one day last week, he brought with him a new assignment to add to his already considerable duties. For the next nine weeks he will not only be covering the President of the U.S., already the busiest man in the world, but also the Republican candidate for the presidency in the election campaign. The pace was already accelerated: Steele found himself finishing up one story at 1 a.m., hustling back to the White House for ceremonies...
Into Washington last week, after a brief golfing vacation at California's Cypress Point, flew the Republican candidate for President of the U.S., clearly willing and ready to start swinging on two months of hard campaigning. At the airport, spotting a sign that said WE CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRATS LIKE IKE, Dwight Eisenhower got off an apt remark for a Republican candidate in 1956. "You're not conservative," he said. "You're just discerning Democrats...
...days when the tricolor flew over Indo-China, there was a distinct advantage in being a metis-the offspring of a foreigner and a Vietnamese. France generously granted citizenship to any Vietnamese with even a drop of French blood. Slant-eyed Eurasians, born of French soldiers or colons, learned in school that "our ancestors were the Gallic people." Eurasian men learned to drink cognac and vin rouge, the oftimes beautiful Eurasian women to wear Chanel perfume and Paris gowns. Vietnamese of mixed blood got the best jobs, were always considered a few steps above their fellow countrymen...
...days later a French DC-4 flew off to Paris with 87 abandoned Eurasian orphans who will join 3,000 orphans already being cared for by the French. In the filthy, overcrowded Centres d'Accueil in Saigon, 3,000 more Eurasians are waiting to leave. But most of the 100,000 Eurasians left in Viet Nam will have to stay behind and learn to adjust to their new status. No one hereafter can go to France unless he is legally recognized by a French father, and soldiers are notoriously forgetful...
...just to quash rumors that Juliana might abdicate, it was announced that the heir presumptive, Princess Beatrix, 18, would begin studies this term at Leiden University, where her mother won an honorary doctorate in literature and philosophy at 21. These matters settled, Juliana and Bernhard flew off to Corfu for a holiday with the Greek royal family. Their loyal subjects (who have been told very little of all that has gone on) were assured by an Amsterdam newspaper that for Juliana and Bernhard "this interlude in the land of classical harmony and joy of living" would mark "the equally harmonious...