Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they start buying, that is. Though Russia, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Hungary have indicated that they want 150 million bushels of U.S. wheat in a hurry, some problems remain. A four-man Soviet team headed by First Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Sergei A. Borisov flew into Washington last week to thresh them out. Chief stumbling block is a provision that the President wrote into the deal to help increase its political palatability in the U.S. It requires that the wheat be transported in U.S. ships whenever possible. Since it costs around $20 a ton to move the wheat to Russian ports...
...position, he says, is "unemployed parson" and thus he has more time for travel. So Lord Geoffrey Fisher, 76, retired Archbishop of Canterbury, flew into Sydney with his wife to visit their son. "We've come to Australia to see him and his wife before they've forgotten they're both English," he explained. As for the rest of his time since retiring, Lord Fisher has been doing what he likes-"going to schools and universities to give talks and be heckled...
...after Industrialist Howard Hughes was forced by the airline's lenders to put his 78.2% ownership of TWA in trust. When Hughes began sniping at the new administration, Tillinghast tied him into legal knots with an antitrust suit. He arranged additional financing for more jets, flew the line constantly to check on service, and shifted TWA's image from that of a tourist's to a businessman's airline...
...surprise announcement last night, Find-A-Bird, Inc. revealed that the Lampoon's Ibis has flown the coop. A spokesman for the organization, which until yesterday promised to return the bird to the Lampoon, would say only that the Ibis flew away from a Find-A-Bird agent yesterday afternoon...
Several persons conjectured that the Ibis escaped while being shown the Lampoon building. At least one cynic suggested it was frightened off by "that silly castle." No one in Cambridge seems to know where the bird was heading when it flew off. It was last seen traveling "in the direction of Maine," according to one observer...