Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moments later, the Hercules took off from Evreux, France. When it flew across the West German border into the southern corridor at 25,000 ft., three Soviet jet fighters closed in, wheeled to within 10 ft. of the transport's wingtips, buzzed annoyingly until it entered the landing pattern of Berlin's Tempelhof airport. On the return trip, also at 25,000 ft., it was harassed by Russian fighters all the way through the corridor to the western borders of Communist-held East Germany...
...Bargain. In this planlessness and confusion of purposes lay the seeds of Iraq's present chaos. When Aref flew off to Damascus for a much-publicized meeting with Nasser, and Egyptian MIGs began operating on Iraqi airfields, Kassem recoiled, began looking for allies against the eloquent Aref and his Nasserite followers. The Communists, who, alone among Iraqi political parties, had emerged from Nuri's police state lean, hard and well organized, were only too ready to give Kassem the help he wanted-for a price...
Back in Hollywood for the first time since 1949, when she flew off to make movies and love with Roberto Rossellini. Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman, accompanied by her third husband, Producer Lars Schmidt, flashed her cloudless Nordic smile on newsmen. And what of the rumor that Ingrid was pregnant again? Her parry: "That is really a question between God, my husband and myself...
...week break from prayer meetings on his Down Under "Crusade for Christ," Evangelist Billy Graham went out for a dip in the Pacific surf at Broad-beach, Australia. Later, tanned and rested, he flew off to New Zealand, stirred 3,000 welcomers with a message of hope: "If Christians around the world unite in prayer, we could avert war. We don't have anything in common racially or politically. One common denominator we do have is spiritual...
America Waits. Next day, after nearly a month in Spain, where she had been busy filming It Started with a Kiss, Debbie flew over the top of the earth and into Hollywood. "What about it, Debbie?" reporters asked. "Will you contest the divorce? America is waiting." Friends had taken the trouble to give her a report by telephone on the Las Vegas idyl while her plane refueled in Winnipeg, and Debbie was ready. "It comes as very much of a surprise to me," she said with a straight face. "The position in which I was placed made it necessary...