Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edwin Rees was lucky enough to catch White on the ground, persuaded Mrs. White to order him home early from his office one afternoon, interviewed the general over the bowl of oyster stew that Mrs. White had prepared for him. The Los Angeles Bureau's John Koffend flew to SAC headquarters in Omaha to talk with SAC Commander Thomas S. Power, discovered that Power had just flown in from Washington, was set to fly out to Europe, was too busy to see him. At 3 a.m. from-his hotel room, Koffend fired off a telegram petitioning General Power...
...talk to Vice Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay, Contributing Editor Peter Bird Martin flew from New York to Buenos Aires, asked to fly home with LeMay aboard his record-setting KC-135 jet tanker. LeMay agreed to take him only if wind and temperature would permit his heavily loaded jet to leave Ezeiza Airport's short runway safely with Martin's extra weight (187 Ibs.) aboard. He ordered Martin to report back to the plane at 5:30 next morning. In a cool dawn, Martin discovered conditions were favorable, climbed aboard, was able to radio TIME...
...President flew west for his Oklahoma speech, got back to Washington at 3 a.m., was up and at his desk again before 8. After a second Security Council meeting Thursday, Ike drove over to tell 1,200 members of the National Defense Executive Reserve Conference his views on planning for emergencies: "The very definition of 'emergency' is that it is unexpected; therefore it is not going to happen the way you are planning. So the first thing you do is to take all the plans off the top shelf and throw them out the window and start once...
...orders in his name that Cabinet officers accepted unquestioningly. "There are only two people who matter in the state-Ben-Gurion and me," he said, not in arrogance, but in devotion so great that it amounted to identification. One day last fortnight, as he drove into Jerusalem, a wasp flew in the window of Argov's car and stung him on the eyelid. Argov lost control of the wheel and knocked down a cyclist. At the hospital he blanched when the doctor told him the cyclist, a father of four, might not live...
...pushing defense strategist said that he had found a willing listener. It was after he flew to Texas and talked with Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, he explained, that Congress appropriated an extra billion dollars for the Air Force. Said Arthur: "The day Congress acted, Johnson phoned me and said, 'Arthur, this is a billion-dollar phone call, and now you stay out of Texas. You've cost the taxpayers a billion dollars.' I told him, 'It will cost $4 billion a year to run this right, so you've done...