Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aldous Huxley died Friday in California. Senator Goldwater flew on to Washington after attending the funeral of his mother-in-law in Indiana...
Immediately after taking the oath, Johnson flew to Washington to take over the government. The new President made a very brief speech when he arrived at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland and then went to the White House to meet with the Cabinet and other Administration officials...
...Mikawa mine on southern Kyushu island, a cotter pin apparently fell out of a coupling on a string of coal cars halted on a slight incline. One coal car rolled back down into the mine. Gathering speed, it flew off the track on a curve in the tunnel and struck the mine wall, showering the fatal sparks that ignited coal dust in a vast explosion. At Tsurumi, outside Yokohama, another cotter pin evidently sheared off the wheel housing of a southbound freight car. The loose lost wheel caused the last three cars to derail and sprawl across the adjacent track...
...matters came to a head, Under Secretary of State W. Averell Harriman flew to Buenos Aires to see Illia, and later told U.S. oilmen: "I ran into the same thing you fellows did-a brick wall." At week's end Illia signed the blanket decrees. In them there was only a slight hint of renegotiation or indemnification, and in fact, it was asserted that the companies owed some $80 million in back taxes...
...Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Dale Wasserman, hinges on a duel in a loony bin, and the play seems almost as disturbed and disturbing as its setting. Ward Nurse Ratched (Joan Tetzel) is a kind of female Fu Manchu with incredibly sweeping authority. If a patient steps out of line, she punishes him with electric shock treatments...