Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steel tycoon, who protested: "I have a girl friend"; dashing young Fernando Elza-buru, who had actually visited The Netherlands and met Irene. Or could her fiance be Prince Alfonso de Borbon, a nephew of Don Juan, the pretender to the Spanish throne? Not likely, said Alfonso, as he flew off to an athletic rally in Czechoslovakia...
Stopping over in Paris, the royal party learned that the government would resign if they went on to Spain. The plane flew home instead. Juliana's unceremonious return led many Dutchmen to believe that the Queen would bow before the wave of hostility against the royal family and abdicate the throne. But Juliana could scarcely step down...
Through the Gates. Irene meanwhile had decided to handle things her way. After about a week in hiding at a Catalonian convent, said a friend, Irene "overcame her difficulties of mind" and would soon announce a "happy family happening." As Bernhard flew off again to bring her home, the princess popped up at the house of her invisible suitor. He turned out to be Prince Carlos de Borbon y Parma, 33, whose family has its own remote claim to the Spanish throne. Paris-born Carlos is an athletic, brainy, offbeat grandee who studied at Oxford and the Sorbonne (economics, science...
...folksy style pleasantly surprised U.S. advisers, who have long urged grass-roots politicking on government leaders. Next day Khanh flew to address troops at guerrilla-beleaguered Ben Cat, 27 miles north of Saigon. "We cannot win the war by staying in Saigon," he said. "It is the countryside where the majority of the people live, people who need help, protection and security." At a village market, he questioned startled peasants about their health, housing and work. With flashbulbs popping, he handed out candy to squealing small fry, wisecracked: "A few more months of this and I will be ready...
...luck followed him last year to Chamonix where, whistling through the downhill at 70 m.p.h., he was suddenly waved off the course to avoid a collision with a fallen skier. He dodged the skier all right-and flew off the headwall "like an airplane." Recalls Zimmermann: "I said to myself, 'Egon, that's the end-you're going to break every bone in your body.' I was lucky. I got off with strained ligaments and twelve days on crutches...