Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extraordinary airplane, a technical generation ahead of any of its competitors. Lockheed's famed designer Clarence L. ("Kelly") Johnson started building the ship in 1959 as a successor to the U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance plane. Though it was the altitude champ of its day, the U-2 flew so slowly (500 m.p.h. at 70,000 ft.) that the Russians were eventually able to shoot one down. The All was specifically designed to fly high enough and fast enough to avoid trouble...
...returns" were predominant in the news last week. Secretary McNamara flew back from his fourth visit to South Vietnam and Henry Cabot Lodge won a surprising victory in New Hampshire Taken together these returns should prompt a third, the resignation of Ambassador Lodge, and his exit from Saigon...
Church bells tolled mournfully throughout Athens. Atop Lycabettus hill, a lone cannon boomed an hourly salute. Women wept in the streets, and only funeral dirges were played on the radio. Throughout Athens, Greece's blue and white flag flew at half-staff for King Paul of the Hellenes, who died of thrombosis in the lungs last week at 62, after a 17-year reign that had seen Greece rise from destitution and civil war to become one of the most stable states in Europe...
...week after the operation, Wilson and his Boston colleague, Dr. Robert Goldwyn, flew down to look at Luna. They found that Gilbert had done his work well. "The hand is beautifully positioned," said Goldwyn. The blood flow was good, and while the skin appeared blistered there was no sign of the feared rejection process. Says Wilson: "What the whole fate of the hand will be, I don't think either of us can say at the moment. But Dr. Gilbert has made an excellent start...
...year history, the line has not once been on government subsidy, last year carried 80,000 transatlantic passengers, twice the number it flew in 1953. Icelandic, which is owned by 700 Icelanders, is content with its small share of a big and growing market. Says Managing Director Alfred Eliasson: "We have no desire to kill any of the Goliaths, but wish only to continue living in the image of David in peaceful coexistence with the Philistines...