Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sight was his wife Lenore, who was seen toting a handbag embroidered with the slogan, LET GEORGE DO IT. Only one Reagan operative was on hand. But F. Clifton White, the upstate New Yorker whose brilliant organizational work was a major factor in Barry Goldwater's 1964 nomination, flew in with several of the men who helped him pull off that coup...
Last week, after a seven-day secret investigation, a Navy court of inquiry offered only fragmentary answers. Its summary pointed out that "U.S.S. Liberty was in international waters, properly marked as to her identity." A 5-ft. by 8-ft. U.S. flag flew at the masthead, must surely have been seen by three separate Israeli planes that surveyed the ship during the morning. Her name was lettered on the stern in English, which could hardly have been confused with the Arabic script on Egyptian ships. "The court produced evidence that the Israeli armed forces had ample opportunity to identify Liberty...
From Havana, Kosygin flew on to Paris and brief talks with Charles de Gaulle. The visit was mostly ceremonial-a Soviet show of thanks for De Gaulle's indirect support during the Middle East crisis. Then it was home to Moscow...
...effort to reduce the weight of cartridges. By 1961, Van Langenhoven had produced a derivative of nitrocellulose that could be ignited by a jet of hot air and that actually eliminated the need for a cartridge. Daisy President Cass Hough got wind of Van Langenhoven's experiments and flew over to Paris for a demonstration in an instrumented firing range near the Champs Elysées. Using a modified air rifle and pellets wadded with cottonlike propellant, the 6-ft. 3-in. Belgian squeezed off shots whose velocity was clocked at almost 1,500 ft. per sec., the speed...
...M.I.T., won an investment contest in Harvard's Bull and Bear Club by totting up a 68% gain in four months, acted as resident tutor at his fraternity house, founded his own data-processing company, which has a contract with the First National Bank of Boston, and flew to New York City once or twice a month to work in the institutional-research department of a brokerage house, Oppenheimer & Co. As the time approached for him to get his degrees (Harvard's LL. B. this month; M.I.T.'s master of science in September), Walter also sandwiched...