Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NATO's Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, Lauris Norstad, flew into Washington, worked far into the night with Pentagon aides, conferred with President Eisenhower for two hours, left nothing undone in preparing for one of his most important duties: appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to urge approval of the Administration's $1.8 billion military-aid program. But when he arrived on Capitol Hill, four-star General Norstad found a near-empty hearing room, with only two of the 15 members of the Foreign Relations Committee on hand to greet...
...Sight. In a Rome nightclub two months ago with Brazil's metals-rich Francisco ("Baby") Pignatari, Linda lost a jade earring. Sympathetically, the 41-year-old Baby suggested a trip to Hong Kong for a replacement, and off they flew. When their shopping was done, they decided to go on around the world to Rio. Linda collected a few baubles along the way-including a $4,000 diamond "engagement ring...
...that my seeing Princess Margaret in any way alters the situation declared specifically in the autumn of 1955" (when she told the nation that she would not marry the divorced onetime royal equerry). Still smiling, the Queen returned to England at week's end. Pale and unsmiling, Margaret flew to West Germany to inspect two army units. Somber as ever, ex-Suitor Townsend was off for a visit to his mother in the country...
...Beirut last week flew a cosmopolitan group of businessmen with a daring mission. They were the directors of a new investment company called MIDEC -Middle East Industrial Development Projects Corp.-which represents capital from the U.S. and nine European countries. With field headquarters in Beirut, MIDEC's directors were looking for partners, and the partners they want are Arab businessmen who will set up and run their own enterprises, retaining majority ownership and control but getting help from MIDEC's capital and technical know-how. To old Middle East hands, the idea of Westerners joining in an Arab...
Died. Clyde Pangborn, 61, oldtime airman, who, with Hugh Herndon Jr., made the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean (1931), also flew and wing-walked for the famed Gates Flying Circus, ferried bombers and transports to England during World War II, demonstrated Designer Vincent J. Burnelli's Flying Wing; of a pulmonary infarction; in Manhattan. When Tokyo's daily Asahi offered $25,000 for the transpacific flight. Pangborn and partner took their Bellanca monoplane to Japan, ready to try. On arrival, they were clapped into jail as spies, for taking pictures. After a 21-day trial (total...