Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southeast Asia, cracked jokes about how he recently outbowled Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, had coffee with a group of newswomen, gave two background briefings to White House reporters, and warmly greeted an explorer scout who had bicycled 2,800 miles from Idaho to shake the presidential hand. Then he flew off to Harry Truman's library in Independence, Mo., to sign the medicare bill, and followed that with a week-end visit to his ranch in Texas...
...after a shaky start. His trips to the Soviet Union, Canada and Britain have given him big headlines at home; he has weathered a major food crisis and worked out a truce with Pakistan in the Rann of Kutch. Last week, with Desai safely quenched for the moment, Shastri flew off for another foreign journey-this time to Yugoslavia for talks with Marshal Tito...
...Frei flew to Paris from Rome in Charles de Gaulle's personal Caravelle and got a warm reception from De Gaulle at the airport. At a press luncheon, Frei called for an "Alliance for Progress" between Europe and Latin America, then plucked a mildly anti-U.S. chord that warmed De Gaulle. "It is a fact," said Frei, "that the U.S. is a great world power and exerts hegemony in several parts of the world. We Latin Americans want a system without hegemony." Did this mean a cooling of U.S.-Chilean relations? Not at all, explained Frei. "The discrepancy...
After three sessions with De Gaulle, Frei flew on to London, where he dined with Queen Elizabeth and described his "revolution in liberty" to Prime Minister Harold Wilson. "For this," said Frei, "I need support. Great Britain, together with other important sectors of the world, can help by means of its understanding. Only this way can we clear the confusion that exists in some circles over the differences between Communism, revolution and reform." Just so there would be no misunderstandings, Whitehall reminded Frei that Britain stands with the U.S. on the Dominican Republic intervention...
...become too old and inflexible to serve it well. Fading fast were the lofty visions of democracy for which he had gone to jail so long ago. Now his high-handed ways were earning him bitter enemies among the most enlightened groups in the country. Charges of corruption flew thick and fast around his Cabinet. In 1960 he was re-elected to a fourth term, but in a flurry of rigged ballots and intimidated (even murdered) opponents. Suddenly student mobs were rampaging out of control through the streets of Seoul, and violence swept the rest of the nation. Rhee knew...