Word: flew
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Meeting with provost Eliot Stellar, the students demanded that President Martin Meyerson return from his vacation in Barbados and sit down to negotiate with them. This, the first of their demands, was promptly met, and Meyerson flew in the next night to being the talks...
That was the last letter Bob sent to Jim. Jim flew to Denver March 24, 1976, for spring break, planning to meet Bob in a few days and go climbing and backpacking in the Grand Canyon. But the next evening, Mary Lyn called Jim and told him Bob had had an accident on the 24th while flying his hang glider off Point Fermin, California...
DIED. Daniel ("Chappie") James Jr., 58, the first black four-star general in U.S. history; of a heart attack; in Colorado Springs, Colo. A child of Depression-era Florida and a veteran of the segregated armed forces, James joined in an early black sit-in in 1945, flew 101 combat missions in Korea and 78 more in Viet Nam, rose to be commander in chief of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) before his retirement this month. In answer to questions about his career, James developed a standard response: "I got here because I'm damned good...
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.--In preparation for today's EIWA wrestling championships at Penn, the Harvard wrestling team flew here yesterday loaded with thesis materials (seniors), comic books (underclassmen) and high hopes of qualifying one or more Crimson grapplers for the NCAA championships in two weeks...
...first full recruiting year I got Mike Wilhite, Jeff Combs and Elmer Love," Penders said. Penders flew out to the coast to persuade Love to come to Morningside Heights over Stanford. Love, however, decided to take this year off, and back-up center Ed Shockley also left the team--to turn campus playwright--breaking his nose in practice...