Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...christening of his grandson Patrick Lyndon in St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church near the ranch, the President watched the boy being passed from one relative to another during a picture-taking session, quipped: "This is unconstitutional. It's cruel and inhuman treatment." Afterward, the President and Lady Bird flew to Texarkana for the funeral of Representative Wright Patman's wife, then made a sentimental journey to Lady Bird's birthplace at Karnack, 50 miles to the south...
...snapped up by British Director Cliff Owen for a lead in a movie called The Vengeance of She, will be the first actress from Eastern Europe to toil in a capitalist movie. She seems to know the fundamentals. After expressing her affection for London by embracing the miniskirt, she flew to the film location in Monaco, embraced even less on a decadent, bourgeois beach...
...flagpole in the courtyard of the 13th century stone barn, the black, red and gold stripes of Germany flew above the red hammer and sickle of the Soviet Union. It was a tribute to German Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, by all odds the world's finest lieder singer, who was to perform in the barn during the Touraine Festival in central France. It was also an act of self-effacement by Fischer-Dieskau's accompanist, Soviet Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, who has made the rustic, four-year-old festival his own showcase...
...fact that the airline was founded in 1945 on an investment of $180,000 and a rickety fleet of eight Budd Conestogas. Briefly called the National Skyway Freight Corp., it took its subsequent name-and many of its top personnel-from the legendary Flying Tigers, volunteer American pilots who flew for China early in World War II. Disbanded as a unit 25 years ago last week, most of the Tigers began ferrying supplies for the China National Aviation Corp., an enterprise that inspired one of them, Robert W. Prescott, to found his own U.S. cargo line...
...accomplishment and the esthetics of flying itself." To New York Real Estate Broker Edward Cowen, such a trip offers "both pleasure and challenge," but there is no question in his mind that "the whole thing is dangerous." Says Earl Howard of Ames, Iowa, who, with his wife as copilot, flew his twin-engine Piper Aztec to a Rotary International convention in Nice this year: "If cost is a problem, I'd suggest forgetting a trip like this. But if you get as much satisfaction from it as we did, it's worth every cent...