Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With San Antonio cheers still ringing in his ears, Goldwater flew into Eugene, Ore., to attend a meeting of Republican leaders from 13 Western states. Also speaking to that session was Nelson Rockefeller. Rocky, appearing in the afternoon, issued a direct challenge to Goldwater to participate in a series of debates "before the American people...
...effort to pacify the survivors, Premier Giovanni Leone flew to the scene. He was not notably successful. Leone promised: "We will build you a new city." Asked one man bitterly: "What will we put inside the houses? Coffins...
...Birmingham onetime West Point Football Coach Earl Blaik and former Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall flew into the city at President Kennedy's behest to find ways of reconciling the Negro and white communities. White city officials deliberately failed to invite Negro leaders to the airport to welcome Blaik and Royall. Mayor Albert Boutwell, an ailing (diabetes) and so far totally unimpressive "moderate," set the tone by declaring that the Blaik-Royall mission would be of course purely advisory, added Birmingham's familiar refrain that past cooperation between the races had been "hampered largely by professional outside...
...Peacock Throne. Massive U.S. aid ($1.5 billion since 1948) and record oil revenues of nearly $400 million this year have restored financial stability to the country. Even if the election campaign had been wide open, the Shah would have won by a landslide. Jubilant over the results, the Shah flew off to the remote region of Luristan in western Iran. There, as natives pounded big sheepskin drums in noisy greeting, he handed out land deeds to 6,000 more peasant families...
...word that he wished to come home. At a three-hour conference, Feisal and most of his 38 other brothers drew up a document allowing the monarch to return, on condition that he stay out of affairs of state and issue no more decrees. A three-man Feisal delegation flew to Vienna, handed Saud the document; sadly, the King signed...