Word: flew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brass. And it was called to allow the President to settle a disagreement that had broken-out in his official family over U.S. disarmament policy, and thus to crystallize a set of firm U.S. positions which Harold Stassen could take with him-in written form -when he flew back to London for another round of disarmament talks...
Risks v. Opportunities. At week's end, his briefcase bulging with the U.S.'s new-position papers, Stassen flew back to London. Even more important than his specific instructions was the fact that the President had authorized him-and committed the U.S.-to take the "first step" if the other nations would take it, too. The risks, the President knew, were considerable. A faulty step could involve the U.S. in acrimony with its non-nuclear allies-especially with West Germany, which is already stirring with the unfounded suspicion that Washington is about to conclude an arms "deal" with...
...week's end, withdrawing temporarily from the budget battlefield. Dwight Eisenhower flew to his Gettysburg farm to play host to West Germany's ancient (81) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who stopped off at the farm for an informal chat before proceeding to Washington this week for serious talks on U.S.-German problems...
...Gettysburg, it turned out, Adenauer did learn something about farming. After lunch (creamed chicken), Ike guided his guest around the farm, lectured him on the care and breeding of Abderdeen-Angus cattle. Late that afternoon, President and Chancellor flew to Washington together in Ike's Aero-Commander...
...attempt to find out what it could of Galíndez and the subsequent disappearance of Gerald Murphy, the young soldier of fortune who flew him to his fate, involved CBS in a sort of thriller of its own. Of 200 witnesses questioned by CBS reporters, 50 refused to talk. Many, asked for FBI protection, agreed to talk only anonymously. Witnesses were interviewed in darkened Manhattan offices in the middle of the night, some bringing lawyers with them. The wife of one witness told CBS that she got an anonymous call saying: "We know your husband's talking...