Word: flew
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...Special Air Warfare Center at Eglin seems like a flashback to 1944, when Colonel Philip G. Cochran's (the Flip Corkin of Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates comic strip) 1st Air Commando Force flew P-52s, B-25s and C-47s across the Burma treetops in support of British General Orde Wingate's Chindits. The outfit was disbanded shortly after World War II. But today at Eglin, members of the all-volunteer 1st Air Commando Group work with ancient C46 and C-47 transports, stub-nosed B-26 light bombers, and prop-driven, single-engined...
...know Don Juan first in Portugal two years ago, had this time to find him first. The Pretender was somewhere in the Mediterranean aboard the yacht Saltillo. returning from the Athens wedding of his son Prince Juan Carlos to Princess Sophie of Greece. On a tip, Prendergast flew to the Spanish island of Majorca...
...Market. Franco consulted his Cabinet, rushed through a decree suspending for two years the part of Spain's bill of rights that safeguards the Spaniards' right to make their residence anywhere in the nation. Then the police went out to nab the more important figures as they flew back from the Munich meeting. Gil Robles was among the first arrested at Madrid's Barajas airport. The cops read him the new government decree, offered him the choice of residence in Spain's faraway Canary Islands or exile abroad. He promptly bought a ticket on the next...
Last Plea. Vice Premier Belkacem Krim of the Moslem F.L.N. flew in from his headquarters in Tunis to confer with members of the Provisional Government at Le Rocher Noir, the administrative center near Algiers. If anyone could talk to the killers and terrorists of the S.A.O. it was Krim, who had last appeared in Algeria in 1957 as a leader of the F.L.N. underground, which was spreading death and destruction among the Europeans. The S.A.O. had sworn never to allow an F.L.N. leader to enter Algeria alive, but the rightist newspaper L'Anrore hailed his presence and the prospect...
Last week Panama's President Roberto Chiari, 57, a businessman with a knack for negotiating, flew into Washington to discuss the issue with President Kennedy...