Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North Viet Nam. For months he heard nothing. Then, in the middle of last month's furor over charges that the U.S. had bombed civilian sections of Hanoi, Salisbury got the go-ahead. Picking up a visa at North Viet Nam's diplomatic mission in Paris, he flew to the Cambodian capital of Pnompenh, there boarded a Hanoi-bound flight with members of the three-nation International Control Commission whose job it is to supervise the 1954 agreement that divided Viet Nam. He arrived in North Viet Nam two days before Christmas, filed the first of his stories...
While the words flew cross-country, representatives of the Kennedys and Look were at work in Manhattan searching for a way out. At a weekend meeting in Manhattan, Jackie read key sections of the serialization. With former Presidential Speechwriter Richard Goodwin at her side, she pointed out twelve passages that she considered to be invasions of her privacy, demanded their deletion. The passages included...
...people and a few head of hardy livestock - in short, precious little and little precious. But because of a surveyor's faulty maps, the arbitrated border was inexactly placed, and regardless of the land's lack of value, both countries heatedly denounced the boundary. For years objections flew back and forth, but it was all fairly harmless until 1963, when Argentine gendarmes suddenly strung up a barbed-wire fence where they thought the border should be. The Chileans reacted with predictable enthusiasm. The Argentine embassy in Santiago was stoned, Argentine flags were burned, and the national police went...
...deeply disturbed after former Kennedy Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, a neighbor of Manchester's near the Wesleyan University campus in Middletown, Conn., saw the author's agreement with Look. Goodwin, realizing that Manchester had assured the magazine of no interference from the Kennedys, took alarm. He and Manchester flew up to Hyannis Port with Look's publisher, Gardner Cowles, and there Jackie gave them an ear-searing lecture...
...effort to reach agreement, Goodwin sent Look and Harper a memorandum indicating ten personal passages about Jackie that the Kennedys were anxious to delete; at that point, they were not even attempting to change the book's tone toward Johnson, despite their alarm at it. Two Harper executives flew to London, where Manchester was working on his interrupted Krupp book, to discuss the changes. Later they said that some changes had been made, but refused to show the galleys to the Kennedys. Look also refused to show them its galleys. Jackie finally decided to sue. Bobby would have preferred...