Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news from Southeast Asia in recent months has focused on South Viet Nam, but turning the story around the ambivalent position of Sihanouk's Cambodia takes it into a broader perspective. Correspondent Pace's own experience was in a way symptomatic of the ambivalence. He flew to Cambodia at a time when most journalists were banned, feared that he might be shipped right out again, but argued with security officials until two planes had departed and left him stranded until the next day. At that point, the officials gave him a 48-hour visa; some hours later, that...
...stayed there during the historic moment in the sweltering cabin of Air Force One when Johnson was sworn in, and he flew right on to Washington without even a clean shirt along...
...Vice Admiral William E. Centner Jr., 56, new commander of the Taiwan Defense Command on Nationalist Chinese Formosa. A taut, efficient planner and a professional perfectionist, Gentner demands that his subordinates be thinking men as well as fighting men, regularly flew "guest lecturers" out to speak aboard the big carriers when he was boss of the Sixth Fleet. Though Bill Gentner probably won't need it, there will be plenty of advice available to him on Formosa. U.S. Ambassador Jerauld Wright is a retired four-star admiral...
...Dash of Sweetener. Last August negotiations over the contentieux broke down, and Congolese Premier Cyrille Adoula flew home from Brussels in a jet-propelled snit. His mood was not improved when the Belgians, three months later, failed in a move to ease him out of office. Papa Spaak's visit last week was aimed at renewing the negotiations. Long a friend of Adoula's central government, Spaak had opposed the Belgian conservatives who backed Katanga's secession...
...Burton. After 24 months as the world's most famous lovers, the seemingly (or unseemlily) inseparable couple made it legal in Montreal at a Unitarian ceremony attended only by eleven of their dearest employees. It was a hush-hush, rush-rush affair, for which they secretly flew up from Toronto-where Dick is doing Hamlet-in a chartered Viscount. By 2:20 that afternoon, here came the bride, all dressed in yellow chiffon, topped by a nuptial hairdo that featured a 34-in., hyacinth-entwined coil of hair. Then, slipping a circlet of diamonds on Liz's finger...