Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this week's cover story, Associate Editor Mike Demarest, 37, has a closer than usual connection with his subject. Demarest grew up in England, and four years after joining TIME'S staff in 1954, returned to London as a correspondent for us for three years. Recently he flew over to London to watch Ted Heath perform in the crucial debate in the House of Commons ("most impressive"), to have dinner with him, and to get his own impressions of how prominent Britons-journalists, civil servants and businessmen-felt about their country's application to join the Common...
Later the President climbed into his jet helicopter and flew off to Philadelphia to become the first President since Wilson to make a Fourth of July speech at Independence Hall. As he looked from his aircraft over the farmlands of Pennsylvania, bright and beautiful in the sunshine, Kennedy mused aloud that he did not expect many people to come to hear him speak on such a fine day. "They'd rather be at the beach," he said. But when his helicopter settled down, there were 100,000 waiting to listen and cheer. Kennedy, obviously pleased, responded with fervor...
Family News. The successful week left the President in an eager mood to get up to Cape Cod, which he had not visited since Thanksgiving. He packed up Jackie, Caroline and John Jr. and flew off for Squaw Island off Hyannisport, where the summer White House will be set up in a seven-bedroom house owned by Tenor Morton Downey...
...questioned the doctors' tactics. In Boston, Dr. Richard Ford, associate clinical professor of legal medicine at Harvard, volunteered to fly to Saskatchewan to investigate any deaths "that may be related to professional negligence by delinquent physicians." Dr. Gerhard . T. Beck, 53, left his yacht in Jacksonville, Fla., and flew to Regina to help, declaring: "It is not our professional prerogative to desert our patients...
After Paris, Dean Rusk flew to West Berlin and then to Bonn. The Berlin stop was a formality, a mere 2¾-hour duty visit to sign the city's famed Golden Book, confer briefly with Mayor Willy Brandt, peer over the Wall. Although Rusk predicted that some day this "affront to human dignity" would come down, sensitive Berliners complained that the Rusk visit had been perfunctory...