Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wrong Convention. The next morning the President felt, as he told friends, like a man who had shed a sack of cement.*He flew out to Chicago to address the National Association of Broadcasters, quipped that one of his aides had told him: "It looks to me like you are going to the wrong convention in Chicago." In a notably restrained speech, he made an uncharacteristically modest confession: "I understand, far better than some of my severe and perhaps intolerant critics would admit, my own shortcomings as a communicator...
Novotný tried to relieve Dubček of his Slovak post, but the Slovaks would have none of it. Finally, after Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev flew into Prague in a belated attempt to save him, Novotný resigned the party job in January, and Dubček was elected to replace him. Even then, Novotný did not completely give up. His allies in the Defense and Interior ministries put to gether desperate plans for a coup, and at least one tank battalion was ready to roll into Prague on Novotný's behalf. But the coup...
Last week, as the first six of the new planes made their combat debut over North Viet Nam, the F-l 11 flew right into another, even more serious controversy. On only the third and sixth days of combat, two of the $6,000,000 planes went down in Southeast Asia. One of them failed to return to its base in Thailand on a bombing mission to North Viet Nam; the other crashed in Thailand...
McCarthy in Ted Kennedy's office. He offered Johnson impossible terms for reconciliation (see box). Through an old friend, Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, Kennedy told the White House of his final decision to run. On Friday, Kennedy took a brief recess, flew to Long Island to serve as official fall guy at a club luncheon. Kennedy took the ribbing, managed to ignore a belly dancer's gyrations while studying his notes...
...June 22, a 28-man contingent of the two crews flew to London...