Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when he was president of The Crimson, Maccoby and an accomplice engineered the theft of the famed Ibus, which sits atop the Lampoon Castle. Maccoby was, in turn, abducted by Lampoon editors. After a daring escape, Maccoby and his cohort flew to New York and presented the bird to the Russian delgation to the U.N. as "a sort of American bird of peace," on behalf of the Lampoon, requesting it be placed on the spire of the new Moscow University. The Lampoon president, John H. Updike '54, who was not amused, lodged an international protest and secured the bird from...
postprimary phone call to Reagan: "Ron, congratulations, sir. You beat the hell out of me." How did Reagan do it? Bush's strategists were ready?after the vote?with a barrage of excuses. For one thing, the exhausted Bush flew home to Houston the weekend before the vote, while Reagan campaigned to the bitter end. Thus New Hampshire television viewers on Sunday and Monday saw pictures of Bush resting beside his Texas swimming pool while Reagan was doggedly plowing through chilled New Hampshire crowds?an odd contrast for a campaign in which Reagan's age was supposed...
...buses and by nights in the soft, sometimes sagging beds of supporters' homes. Kennedy takes along a bed board, which helps, but whenever possible, he sleeps on the firm and familiar mattress of his cam in Hyannis Port. Late last week, after 17 straight days of campaigning, he flew to West Palm Beach, Fla., for a day of relaxation in his mother's mansion. One of its useful features: a whirlpool bath...
...down on weight and save fuel, Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic in 1927 with neither a radio nor a parachute. Half a century later, airlines are still trying desperately to conserve fuel. The reason right now is that the average cost of jet fuel has soared from 400 to 850 per gal. in the past twelve months. This year the twelve largest U.S. carriers will spend almost $10 billion, about 30% of their operating budgets, for jet-engine fuel. That is an increase of 20% over last year. Fuel has become so expensive that six of the ten largest lines...
...loves to talk about it as much as he loves to do it. Blumenfeld gives Bernie the energy of four scotch-and-waters, from his bulging veins-of-excitement in the first scene to his better tongue when he rails at Joan for refusing to buy his "just flew in from Miami" come-on line...