Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flubber. It's that man again-Neddie the Nut, that is. Remember him? In The Absent Minded Professor, the nuttiest science-fiction farce of recent years, Neddie (Fred MacMurray) invented "flubber"-lab gab for flying rubber. In Professor the professor put flubber in a flivver and flew. In this picture he turns flubber slubber into flubbergas and starts blowing flubbles. Infantile? Absolutely...
...pleaded for permission to shoot down the photo plane. But there were more authoritative voices, speaking in Spanish and Russian. "Hold your fire.'' they ordered. ''Hold your fire. Don't shoot." The Cubans obeyed their Soviet masters and the U.S. planes, their mission completed, flew safely away...
Through it all, the orchestra of Howard Lanin* played on, many of the spinsters missing the commotion-even when Zantzinger turned on his 125-lb. wife, who fell to the floor. More blows flew as two men struggled to calm Zantzinger. A physician felt Mrs. Zantzinger's pulse, decided she would be all right...
Last November Secretary of Defense McNamara decided to cancel the development of the Skybolt air-to-ground missile. After making the announcement to the press in early December, McNamara flew to England to explain his decision to British Defense Minister Thorneycroft, who flatly informed McNamara that such a move was wholly unacceptable. During the following week the British press blasted the Kennedy Administration for its tactlessness and infidelity. Stunned government officials, including a large number of M.P.'s, began talking of reprisals and an "agonizing reappraisal" of Anglo-American relations. At Nassau, a hand-wringing Macmillan accepted...
...help encourage new businesses. The problem was finding an able and independent boss who would be acceptable to government reformers, the Philippine business community, and overseas bankers. The man was finally found, and last week Francisco Ortigas Jr., 56, new president-treasurer of the Development Corporation of the Philippines, flew off to Washington to arrange $22 million in loans. Roman Catholic Ortigas is a successful businessman with a highly regarded talent for organization. Branching out from his own insurance and real estate business, he has gone into meat packing, sugar refining and cement, written a book called Planting Rice...