Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laboratory, collided in mid-air with an F-104 Starfighter over the Mojave Desert. The crash occurred during a flight arranged for General Electric, maker of the Valkyrie's YJ-93 engines. G.E. got Air Force officers to approve a photo-shooting session in which the XB-70 flew in close formation with four other planes, all G.E.-powered...
MAJOR JAMES KASLER, ace U.S. Air Force pilot, flew back into danger to help a buddy, and was last heard reporting: "My leg is broken." See THE WORLD...
...older brother to spread the oil wealth around the country. Running out of patience, Zaid finally called a secret family council, and all agreed that Shakhbout had to go. The British obligingly brought in native troops from neighboring sheikdoms, carried the reluctant Shakhbout bodily out of the palace, and flew him to Bahrain in a waiting R.A.F. plane. "Our priorities are many," Zaid said at week's end. "We need a deep-water port, an international airport, hospitals, schools and town planning, plus some parks for the people. From now on, the people will reap the fruits...
...turned into Ladies' Day in Manila as South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky flew in on a four-day state visit to express his gratitude for the 2,000 Filipino troops President Ferdinand Marcos has sent to help fight the Viet Cong. Along with Ky came his wife Mai, 24, and the airport crowd crushed forward for a better look as she stepped off the plane, strikingly beautiful in a white silk ao-dai. Then the home team brought up its reinforcement: First Lady Imelda Marcos, 36, Manila's beauty queen in 1954 and still...
...wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying," mumbled John Lennon. For a Beatle, that was an apology. John and his three shaggy sidekicks flew into Chicago to open their 18-day U.S. tour, more than a little apprehensive over their reception after the fuss kicked up by John's crack that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus. "We've got to go to America to get beaten up," moaned George Harrison as they left London. Now John was trying to smooth things over. "I never meant it as a lousy irreligious thing...