Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could accomplish things together without making demands on each other. Mrs. Gandhi proved to be not only "a very proud, gracious and very able lady," as the President called her, but a fiercely independent ruler with a determination to equal his own. As if to illustrate that independence, she flew off from London in a Soviet plane to visit Russia's rulers in Moscow before returning to India...
From San Antonio, Lady Bird and her entourage, 70 strong, flew to the desert mountain fastnesses of Big Bend National Park, where she was greeted by a crowd of 4,200, including, one local noted, "every living critter around here." So stark and jagged that astronauts have visited it to see what they will encounter on the moon-yet fiercely beautiful withal-Big Bend receives far fewer visitors than most other national parks, was thus a prime spot for one of the First Lady's See America First promotion trips...
...replenish Ayub's stores, he turned to Red China, whose leaders were happy to turn a political profit. No sooner had the tank-and-jet performance completed last week's "Pakistan Day" celebrations than the Chinese collected the first installment of Ayub's debt. Into Rawalpindi flew Red Chinese President Liu Shao-chi and Foreign Minister Chen Yi for five days of talks and ceremonies. They were swept through Rawalpindi in a bubble-topped yellow Daimler amid flower-throwing crowds that accorded the Chinese the warmest welcome since Sheik Abdullah, "the Lion of Kashmir," visited two years...
Last week, after an initial stalemate, the pitchers agreed to negotiate. The Dodgers' General Manager E.J. Bavasi flew to Los Angeles today and upped original offer to Koufax from $100,000 $12,000 and his offer to Drysdale...
...stood by and watched. Then one marcher went into the street and ripped a pro-war sign. Two of the half dozen policemen holding back the crowd grabbed him, and the crowd surged across the street toward the marchers. For a few moments, as the policemen stood by, fists flew and the two groups confronted each other...