Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Volpe was in the Virgin Islands on vacation at the time of the sit-in, but he quickly flew back to Boston...
...airplane to ignore the equal and opposite force your body exerts on the earth. Especially when there could be an equal or greater number of people jumping out of planes on the other side of the earth. In Vietnam, for instance. (If everyone in the whole world flew over the same corner of the planet all at once and all jumped out at the same time, what would the world...
...turning point came on Sept. 30 in Salt Lake City, the day after Humphrey endured some of the worst heckling of the entire campaign. Fists clenched, lips tight, he flew to Utah to deliver a speech pledging that if he became President, he would risk halting the bombing of North Viet Nam in the hope of achieving peace. Twice before, Johnson had undercut him when he tried to stake out even moderately independent positions on the war. This time there was not a word from the White House...
...last week alone, most of it on TV. The deeply divided Democratic Party began to show signs of belated unity. Humphrey wound up his campaign odyssey of more than 98,000 miles amid laughter, with a triumphant Los Angeles parade and a four-hour telethon with Edmund Muskie. Humphrey flew home to Waverly, Minn., during the early hours of Election Day to vote in Marysville Township, his home precinct, which gave him 385 votes to Nixon's 128 and 15 for Wallace...
...Conservative Democrat Preston D. Smith, 56. The horn rims belong to the real estate entrepreneur and 18-year veteran of public office who had to work his way through high school at such jobs as picking cotton and pumping gas. The Stetsoned Smith is the campaigning frontiersman who flew to 249 of Texas' 254 counties to shake hands and exude confidence. Horn rims or hat, there was more than enough Smith to defeat Republican Paul W. Eggers...