Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these incompatible pairings consisted of a strain from Fresno, Calif., and a Burmese strain that transmitted filariasis, a tropical disease that causes chills, fever and headaches and can lead to elephantiasis. Last March, after breeding a host of strong male mosquitoes from insects caught around Fresno, he flew them to Burma and released 5,000 a day in the isolated village of Okpo. "Those huge males," Laven says, "were quicker and stronger than the indigenous breed." The Fresno males immediately began outdoing their Okpo counterparts in mating with Okpo females-which promptly began laying infertile eggs...
WHETHER in tribulation or triumph, the Jews over the centuries have learned to extract a laugh from almost any event. Last week, acting as the unofficial humor makers of America, they produced a rapid-fire chain of chutzpa-laced jokes about the Middle East conflict that flew as swiftly as a Jewish Superman (see cut). Their comic chronology...
...complaint, it was that the desk-bound duties of a Defense Minister kept him from spending as much time as he would have liked with his troops; there was too much paper work waiting in his command bunker in Jerusalem. Even so, at least once a day he motored, flew or helicoptered to inspect some military field position. He wanted to see for himself that every aspect of the war was being handled properly. For this time Israel was involved in far more than a Sinai campaign...
...time that Wallis Warfield Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, 70, had been invited to a royal function in the 30 years since the Duke, as Edward VIII, had abdicated his throne to marry the nonroyal divorcee. The ceremony over, the Queen left for the Derby at Epsom, and the Windsors flew home-to Paris...
With only two planes (Lockheed turboprop Electras), about 160 employees and the San Francisco-Orange County route that nobody wanted, Air California has snared an impressive and rapidly growing volume of business. By last week, when it flew its 80,000th passenger, the five-month-old airline had taken in $1,000,000 in revenue, revved up its schedule from five to a minimum of seven flights a day each way, and ordered two more Electras to expand service. Explained Air California President J. Kenneth Hull: "We're in competition with the freeways...