Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week of fast-breaking Foreign News stories, most of the rest of the news did not have to be laboriously dug out of statistics or pried out of travelers. On the hint of trouble in the Sudan, Curtis Prendergast flew into Khartoum from Johannesburg, arriving the day the generals took over. In Tokyo, Alexander Campbell filed a detailed story on the crown prince's betrothal that no Japanese newspaper had yet dared print. In Berlin, a TIME correspondent learned about Mayor Willy Brandt's late-hour habits while talking far into the night with the man whose strong...
...letter-was written, as the President said, to honor the memory of Iven Kincheloe, a Korean war ace (ten kills) who became a famed test pilot. In 1956 he flew an experimental Bell X-2 to a record-breaking 126,000 ft. Last summer (two weeks before his second child, a girl, was born), during preparations for flying the first manned U.S. space plane, the X-15, blond, handsome Iven Kincheloe, 30, died in an F-IO4 crash. His last words, radioed to the control tower at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.: "Edwards, Mayday seven seven two-bailing...
Flying home last week from a postelection South American vacation, New York's Rockefeller flew on to Washington for a meeting of President Eisenhower's Advisory Committee on Government Organization, stayed for a 55-minute talk with Richard Nixon. At talk's end Rockefeller said he and Nixon had agreed that the G.O.P. should develop as many men of national stature as possible and have them available for the 1960 G.O.P. presidential nomination...
...Mayday, Mayday." The storm warnings that flew Lake Michigan's length changed that night into "whole gale" warnings. Winds from the southwest gathered speed, rose to 40, 50, then 60 m.p.h. The Bradley beat its way through the mounting waves into the next day and the dusk. By then, the heavy seas were surging with 30-ft. waves, smashing at the 31-year-old vessel. In the pilot house. First Mate Elmer Fleming, 43, heard a thud. He spun around and looked toward the stern. The vessel was sagging aft of midships. Fleming made for the radiotelephone and cried...
Coast Guard stations and ships snapped radio messages back and forth. Into the roily seas steamed rescue ships, and overhead, battering its way into the swirling winds, flew a Coast Guard plane. In Rogers City, the local radio operator got the Mayday flash. The awful word spread throughout the town. Terror-torn women clustered around radios; the wife of Wheelsman Joe Krawczak looked fearfully at the faces of her six small children...