Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...islands' gambling, which, though illegal, is permitted at three casinos by specific exemption of the government. Pindling claimed that mob elements were taking over the casinos. To dramatize both charges, he has gone before the United Nations Colonial Committee in New ork twice in the past two years, flew to London in November to make the same charges to Fred Lee, then Colonial Secretary, against the United Bahamian Party...
When Lyndon Johnson returned to Washington last week, it was with none of the accustomed fanfare. After 17 days on the L.B.J. ranch, the President flew back to the capital at an hour guaranteed to assure him minimal exposure-just before midnight at the end of the New Year's weekend. During the week, he made only one public appearance and almost no announcements. He did not even attend the funeral of former Secretary of State Christian Herter, an old friend, though it was held in St. John's Episcopal Church, just across Lafayette Square from the White...
Brazil's President-elect Artur da Costa e Silva is having a high old time. On a good will tour of the world, he has already visited Portugal, Belgium, Germany and France, where he went to the Lido but did not see De Gaulle. Last week he flew to Italy and was received by Pope Paul VI and Premier Aldo Moro, then winged on for Bangkok, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Los Angeles, and finally New York and Washington, where he will stay in Blair House as the President's guest late this month. He will not return home...
...before he could take his seat, his luck ran out. A disgruntled political crony shot him down in the street. Hit four times in the neck, shoulder and chest, Arias was left paralyzed from the neck down, unable even to speak. His political career seemed over. Dame Margot flew from London to be with him, took him back to Britain, where he was hospitalized for two years while he received medical care and therapy. Dame Margot gave up her jet-set social life to spend her offstage hours at his bedside. The convalescence was slow, painful and only partial; Arias...
Last week, after a special plea from Mexico, the only Latin American country that still maintains relations with Cuba, Castro finally agreed to let the "Americans" and 1,800 of their relatives leave. The first planeloads flew out to Merida on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, then on to New Orleans in a chartered Pan American Boeing...