Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Monday morning that integration began at Central High School, President Eisenhower flew to Washington for a speaking engagement before the International Monetary Fund, then held a brief, tense conference with Brownell. Barely back in Rhode Island that afternoon, Ike heard from Brownell over the maximum-security telephone in his personal quarters. The news was all bad. A mob ruled at Central High. School Superintendent Virgil Blossom (voted the city's Man of the Year in 1955, now vilified for backing a gradual integration plan) had excitedly called the Justice Department: "Mayor Mann wants to know who to call...
...paper, Atlas is "intercontinental," capable of soaring 5,000 miles. But Atlas I, launched at Cape Canaveral last June, flew erratically, lived only 22 seconds before a safety officer pressed a button to destroy it. Atlas II started off promisingly. In its straight-up flight, lasting 20 seconds or so, it seemed to be, in the missilemen's term, "programing" perfectly, i.e., doing what its makers and tenders expected. But as it arched into its southeastward course, the tail fire glowed too dark, and the bird faltered. The turbine pumps were failing to feed the right mixture of fuel...
...rubber-stamp ranch-house community of Levittown, Pa. (pop. 60,000), the vacant house at 30 Darkleaf Lane last week came alive with a distinction all its own. From one roof peak flew an American flag, and from another-spotlighted by night-the stars and bars of the Confederacy. Each evening the house of the Confederacy was crowded with the members of the newly formed Dogwood Hollow Social Club who worked hard at a hard-boiled bad-neighbor policy. With windows wide open they chattered loudly over coffee, volumed up a phonograph, harmonized on Old Black Joe, aiming all this...
...seats) to expel the two. When Correspondent Ian Colvin of the London Telegraph arrived and reported these doings, Colvin was hauled into court for contempt. And then, when London Lawyer Christopher Shawcross, a distinguished Queen's counsel and brother of Laborite ex-Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross, flew in to defend Reporter Colvin, the Interior Minister declared him persona non grata for "attacking the Ghana government in court" and refused to let him back into the country to finish his case...
Last week one of See It Now's four full-time field teams (each consists of a reporter-director, cameraman, assistant cameraman and sound man) finished a job in Alaska for a show on Alaskan and Hawaiian statehood and flew to Tokyo to join Marian Anderson on a three-month tour of Southeast Asia. Two teams were finishing film for next week's show, The Great Billion Dollar Mail Case, a critical look into the U.S. Post Office. A fourth crew was filming in Europe. In Manhattan headquarters. Friendly pruned incoming footage for perusal by Murrow and began...