Word: flew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eventful Labor Day weekend, Carter had signaled to his top aides that he was not totally against Lance's leaving office. But the decision, he insisted, must come from Bert. At the time, Lance was determined to remain. On his own initiative, Presidential Assistant Hamilton Jordan flew that Saturday to Lance's vacation home in Sea Island, Ga., on the delicate mission of telling Lance that the continuing controversy threatened to cost the President and Lance too much. Recalls Jordan: "It was like going to see someone who was seriously ill in the hospital...
...that to quit would be to abandon the principle that the mere leveling of charges should not force a man out of office. He wanted a chance to state his defense fully. LaBelle, who sat through all the discussions, was more vehement: Bert should not resign. Nevertheless, Jordan flew back to Washington feeling that his warning about the affair's corrosive impact on the President had affected Lance...
...ludicrously out of place, a white shrimp boat with canvas canopy chugging through the Gulf of Maine, 120 miles northeast of Boston. It flew no flag, bore no name and carried no fishing gear. The reason the craft had sailed so far north became immediately apparent once suspicious Coast Guard officers went aboard and sniffed the air: below deck were 859 burlap bales containing 25 tons of pot (estimated market value: $15 million...
...four misdemeanor charges. Asked Judge Milton Williams: "Where have you been this past seven years?" Said Rudd's attorney, Gerald Lefcourt: "He hasn't made any statements to the district attorney's office. He doesn't intend to do so here." Next day he flew to Chicago, where he was arraigned on four misdemeanor charges, again refused to talk and was released on $4,000 bail pending trial...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. In Science Center B, Friday and Saturday...