Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond men, missiles, nuclear weapons and foreign aid, what the U.S. has to offer the non-Communist world-and what the non-Communist world asks of the U.S.-is leadership based on strength. It was to meet this need for leadership that the President flew to the NATO conference in Paris last week at the risk of health and thus of his leadership in the longer range. But even as the President waved to cheering crowds from his open car in winter .weather, a symbol of past victories and present challenges, present and future problems stretched...
...patrol line across choppy North Atlantic seas. From Her Majesty's frigate Undaunted, which was with General Dwight Eisenhower at the Normandy beachhead in 1944, came a message out of the night: "Glad to have you with us-Undaunted we remain." For nearly 16 hours the Columbine flew at 13,000 feet or less so that the cabin pressure could be kept at sea level as a health precaution. President Dwight Eisenhower was returning to Paris, where an emotional welcome and the most portentous meeting of Western heads of state in 40 years awaited...
Orphans' Airlift. For Bertha and Harry"Holt, as well as for the children, the hymn has a special meaning. Two and a half years ago Harry Holt flew to Korea, hunted through orphanages, disease-ridden huts and gutters, rounded up Korean babies fathered by American G.I.s and abandoned by their mothers, and took them home. Pushing a special law through Congress permitting them to adopt all eight children (U.S. law permits families to adopt only two), the Holts, with the help of their own six youngsters (now aged 11 to 24), set out to rear the Koreans as their...
...Force comment on the launching, first successful one for the Atlas, said success came "on a limited range." "The missile flew its prescribed course and landed in the pre-selected impact area, officials stated...
...ride out the storm last week. Capital President David H. Baker and Chairman J. H. ("Slim") Carmichael flew to London, hoping to stretch out payments on their Viscount fleet. In addition. Capital is economizing everywhere, may trim its 8,000-man payroll by 10%. Yet its main hope rests with CAB. Barring subsidy, it wants a healthy fare increase. Without it, Capital may eventually be forced to shut down or merge, possibly with Northwest Airlines...