Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unremitting war. For the men in the field, the 48 hours of Christmas lull was hardly worth writing home about. Infantrymen and Marines kept up patrols on the ground; Navy and Coast Guard boats maintained the watch on coastal and river traffic; pilots of jets, observation planes and helicopters flew reconnaissance missions north and south of the DMZ separating the two Viet Nams. The Allies counted 122 shooting contacts with the enemy. Most of them were minor, but on Christmas Eve, one bout between Marines in Quang Nam and the Viet Cong lasted for several hours...
...duenna of young lovers, Actress Merle Oberon, 47, has been a smashing success. Look what happened after she chaperoned Frankie and Mia. Now Merle and her husband, Industrialist Bruno Pagliai, have another pair to encourage: Lynda Bird Johnson, 22, and George Hamilton, 27, who flew to Acapulco to spend a private vacation at the Pagliais' seaside villa. A small army of reporters and photographers besieged the villa, and another army of guards kept the newsmen at bay. A truce was arranged, with George assembling the press and laying down the ground rules. "There will be no answer...
...insulted his opponents: Sonny Listen was "an ugly bear"; Floyd Patterson was "a chump"; George Chuvalo was "a washerwoman." Last week, Cassius Clay reached a peak-of sorts. In Manhattan to publicize his Feb. 6 title fight with Ernie Terrell, he flew completely off the handle when Terrell casually referred to him as "Clay...
Back in the days of flivvers and flappers, the Ford Tri-Motor transport was the workhorse of U.S. aviation. The "Tin Goose" was shaped like a slightly rhomboid crackerbox, sheathed in corrugated aluminum and equipped with engines slung under each wing and planted on its nose. It flew for every budding U.S. airline, for the Army, the Navy, the Marines. It hauled passengers and freight, landed on wheels, pontoons and skis. Nearly 200 Ford Tri-Motors were built between 1925 and 1932. Astonishingly, some 28 of these chicle, cattle, piping-and people-ferrying air craft are still flying between remote...
...President to leak some significant elements of his State of the Union address so that incoming Congressmen might have some notice of what to expect. Presidential Press Secretary Bill Moyers, who leaves to be come publisher of Newsday in February, has already completed several drafts of the address, and flew down to the ranch last week to talk it over with Johnson. Yet there have been no meaningful hints about what Johnson intends to concentrate on, and the silence has led, in fact, to speculation that the State of the Union address may be delayed until late January instead...