Word: flew
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...more militant guerrillas blew up a national police patrol car in the Basque town of Portugalete, injuring three policemen; a few days later they killed the police chief of Bilbao. As pressure mounted from the right to declare a state of emergency in the Basque region, Calvo-Sotelo flew to Bilbao to pay respects to the dead man's family...
DIED. Benjamin S. Kelsey, 74, aeronautical engineer, leading test pilot and retired Air Force brigadier general, who in 1929 assisted James Doolittle in the first "blind" instrument takeoff and landing, set a speed record in 1938 when he flew from Dayton to Buffalo at an average speed of 350 m.p.h. in an Army pursuit plane, and helped develop combat tactics for U.S. fighters in World War II; of cancer; in Stevensburg...
John Paul left Nagasaki with the new Japanese nickname of Yuki Otoko (Snowman) and flew to equally chilly Anchor age, where he celebrated an outdoor Mass and took a 90-ft. fling at driving a sled drawn by nine rambunctious huskies. "This was great," said the Pontiff. Then off again, up over the North Pole and back to Rome. To the faithful who braved the Nagasaki blizzard, John Paul had said good-naturedly, "It's good for the faith." So, apparently, was the taxing 20,500-mile journey by the most traveled Pope in history...
...NOTEBOOK: Junior Gwen Gorman, scheduled to swim in the 1650-yd. freestyle on Saturday, was unable to fly with the rest of the team to Pittsburgh because of a conflict with her Government seminar. Gorman flew in on her own late last night to join her teammates after fulfilling her academic requirements... All entrants yesterday managed to place in the top 17 of their events...
...First, Warsaw agreed to increase the proportion of state funds invested in private agriculture, which produces 80% of the country's domestically grown food. Second, independent farmers would be allowed to purchase unused state land, which would increase the amount of privately owned farm land. Both provisions, obviously, flew in the face of the Marxist-Leninist doctrine of collective agriculture...