Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost too active to join a small, private birthday party at the L.B.J. Ranch. After sticking to his desk for an extra day because of the steel dispute, Johnson finally flew to Texas at week's end to feast on a 20-lb. birthday cake decorated at Lady Bird's request with small frosting-symbols of Johnson legislation passed by Congress (a hypodermic syringe for medicare, a schoolhouse for aid to education). His presents were strictly for the Man Who Has Everything. Lady Bird's offerings: a leather-bound chronicle of the L.B.J. Ranch since...
...night warplanes swept over the countryside, in the kind of effort the U.S. hoped would make the Communists talk peace. Over North Viet Nam, Air Force and Navy jets flew 1,030 sorties in twelve days. Combined with another 2,600 missions against Viet Cong positions in the south, it was probably the greatest show of airpower since World...
...over the possibilities of rainmaking after reading a newspaper story about a new electronic device that was said to have dumped torrents on parched Escondido, Calif. As it turned out, Escondido had received less rainfall than New York−half an inch since July 1. Undaunted, a Wagnerian team flew posthaste to California to investigate the invention...
Shored Remains. Meanwhile the Tunku was busy shoring up what remains of the federation. Clad in bush jacket and white straw hat, he flew to Kuching, capital of Sarawak state, where politicians were a bit miffed that the Singapore secession had been arranged without consulting other Malaysian states. After some explaining, Abdul Rahman assured Chief Minister Stephen Kalong Ningkan and his Cabinet that they were vitally needed in the federation. Ningkan, well aware that Sarawak lacks the resources to support itself if independent, said Rahman's visit should "do a great deal to dispel whatever anxieties our people...
...Eric Javits, Wendy Vanderbilt, Melinda Moon, Freddie Guest (Winston's son) and his wife Stephanie (Joan Bennett's daughter), Maria Cooper (Gary's daughter), Liza Minnelli (Judy's daughter), Alexandra Cushing and Christina Paolozzi, plus a constellation of Southampton and Newport debs, some of whom flew in for the occasion. But all eyes were on Edie and Andy...