Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roaming more than 3,000 miles over the sprawling city in pursuit of more than 50 interviews. To get firsthand views of the operation, Associate Editor Alvin M. Josephy Jr., in charge of the picture project, and Contributing Editor Jesse L. Birnbaum, writer of this week's story, flew to California and joined the air and ground forces...
...neither the bear hugs of Air Force pressagents, the television interviews nor the well-publicized reunion with his wife and daughter would ever alter one basic fact. Never again, as he flew with the high and the mighty, would Jet Pilot Steeves feel quite the same detachment about the earth beneath...
Still young (23), still beautiful, Joanne flew to Switzerland, looking for new faces, new excitement. There she met sleek Bolivian Tin Heir Jaime Ortiz-Patiño, 25, and her mother urged her to marry him. The night before the wedding in Paris, Joanne rebelled, cried: "You pushed me into this!" Mother won out, and the couple were married in her apartment. Patiño gave his bride $250,000 in jewelry to show his affection, but the marriage was brief. After a 49-day honeymoon on Capri, Joanne disappeared, taking her money and jewels. Jaime found...
Canada's new Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker flew home from the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference in London last week, where he had persuaded the other delegates to start mapping ways to broaden trade within the Commonwealth. In Ottawa he announced a drastic Canadian proposal to carry out the Commonwealth trade speedup: a slash in imports from the U.S. of 15% ($625 million a year). Canada would make up the difference-"mainly capital goods"-from Britain instead. With Canada's wheat surplus ripening into his worst domestic worry, Diefenbaker also attacked U.S. wheat export "giveaways," which insist...
...General Juan Perón, Colombia's General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. For a bird-of-a-feather to help him celebrate Venezuelan Independence Day, President Pérez Jiménez could find only President Alfredo Stroessner of tiny, backward Paraguay. Flags of the two countries flew side by side all over Caracas last week as General Stroessner and a party of 30 top henchmen played guests of honor for the 146th anniversary of Venezuela's declaration of independence from Spain...