Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capable of taking pictures through a manila envelope. Another consortium, headed up by Continental Oil, hired a private train at $12,500 a day to ply back and forth between Calgary and Edmonton for four days while executives prepared their bids in total secrecy; at the last minute, they flew to Anchorage in a corporate JetStar...
...hospital's social life. They became part of the community that Erving Goffman describes in his book Asylums. One student still tells anecdotes about the people he met. Another said. "You could have great times there. People sat around reading I Never Promised You a Rose Garden and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. There were some great tall-tale tellers...
Such cheer as Burns inspired was short-lived. In flew President Nixon to inform the Governors that "dreams of unlimited billions being released once the war in Viet Nam ends are just that-dreams. True, there will be additional money, but the claims on it already are enormous. There should be no illusion that what some call the 'peace and growth dividend' will automatically solve our national problems." Added the President: "In order to find the money for new programs, we will have to trim it out of old ones...
...disguising anxieties in Peking and Moscow. Chinese Communist Premier Chou Enlai, accompanied by a brace of high-ranking aides, arrived in Hanoi less than 48 hours after the announcement of Ho's death and almost immediately went into lengthy conferences with the North Vietnamese Politburo. Next day he flew back to Peking, probably to avoid a confrontation with incoming Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin. The semicomic scramble to avoid a meeting brought into the spotlight once more the Sino-Soviet rivalry for favor in North Viet...
...case of TWA 840, most activity focused on freeing two Israeli passengers who were detained in Damascus. The U.S. brought diplomatic pressure on Syria, and TWA President F. C. Wiser Jr. personally flew to Damascus. The most dramatic gesture came from Ola Forsberg, president of the International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations, whose 44,000 members fly for nearly all of the non-Communist world's airlines. Unless the Israelis were freed, Forsberg promised to call, with two weeks' notice, a 24-hour global strike. There is some question whether the members would authorize a strike, however...