Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Biennial Faultfinder. Only hours before he flew off to the Pedernales, probably not to return until some time in December, the President did manage to get in one final round of politicking. In one of the most heatedly partisan press conferences of his presidency, he dismissed Barry Goldwater's prediction that Republican Ronald Reagan would win a landslide victory in California. "I would just express the hope," rasped Johnson, "that there has been no improvement in Senator Goldwater's judgment since...
...have not only looked the other way to avoid noticing the statues and paintings of Stalin that still adorn many a Georgian town and hotel, but they have even restored Stalin to the history books. Last week Brezhnev went a long step further toward the rehabilitation of Georgia. He flew to the regional capital of Tbilisi to present the republic with an Order of Lenin...
Peace Missions. Toure's action triggered a major diplomatic response. Down from A.O.U. headquarters in Addis Ababa flew a "peace mission" eager to resolve the crisis. In from the United Nations clattered a message from Secretary-General U Thant, condemning both sides and expressing "distress." Washington issued a "strong protest" to Guinea and dropped subtle hints that it might suspend its $70 million in foreign aid unless Ambassador Mcllvaine was released. Even Nigeria's military ruler, Lieut. Colonel Yakubu Gowon, was moved to send the commander of his ten-ship navy to Accra for explanations...
...round of 20-hour days was beginning to tell on the President; when he flew into the big U.S. airbase at Sattahip on the Gulf of Siam the next day, he was visibly exhausted. Helicoptering to Kittikachorn's summer residence at the sparkling seaside resort of Bang Saen, the President spent a day relaxing, then headed with Lady Bird into Bangkok for a new round of ceremonies...
...fortnight the anti-Communist forces in Laos have been in chaos. First, the charismatic commander of the neutralist army, General Kong Le, flew off to Thailand in a huff when three of his colonels challenged his right to give the orders. He was already unpopular because of three "dragon's eggs" given him by a superstitious peasant. Draconic rage at their theft supposedly brought floods down upon the land (TIME, Oct. 21), so his rest cure in Bangkok for what he called a "sprained arm" was likely to be lengthy. Then came a rebellion of royalist air force officers...