Word: flier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pilot Pope was clearly not the only U.S. flier involved in Indonesia's civil war. From Zamboanga, in the southern Philippines, last week came word that during March and April some 20 transport planes had touched down at the dirt airport to refuel and continue on their way to or from rebel-held Menado. The planes reportedly had Nationalist Chinese markings covered over with hasty coats of paint, their pilots were Chinese and Americans from Chennault's swashbuckling CAT, the cargoes were rumored to be guns and munitions. But the continued string of rebel defeats...
...picture of his late wife Evita from his bedroom wall, packed his clothes and drove off one midnight in Paraguayan President Alfredo Stroessner's own car. Well before dawn, Peron, who hates planes, was airborne in a DC-3 piloted by the Paraguayan air force's best flier. The plane's short range made any direct flight across the vast Amazonian jungles impossible; instead the aircraft hopscotched up the east coast of South America for four days. Stops on Peron's Odyssey...
...pray.' He led us in the Lord's Prayer. He never mentioned his pain once." After half an hour, rescue workers heard the tapped-out SOS and groped their way to the trapped men. The heroic officer, Lieut. Leonard M. De Rose, a Reserve flier, died later...
...came from Walter's mastery of the intricacies of Southern language. The phrase, "Oh, I can't abide creepie-crawlies" evokes Texas and Louisiana more convincingly for me than any amount of slopped-on dialect. Matthiessen's story "A Replacement" rings true in its dialog between a captured American flier and a German officer in the dying days of the last war. The least pleasing bit of fiction is "The Accident" by a young Texas writer called Terry Southern. An excerpt from a novel, it is well-told and at times exciting, but it lacks orientation; one wants to know...
Brother & Sister. Businessman Boussac, whose Lyon-based textile empire consumes some 70% of all the cotton shipped into France, has a sharp eye for a winner. He backed Dress Designer Christian Dior, got a spectacular, moneymaking result: the New Look. Although he sometimes takes a calculated flier in both the textile and racing business, he prefers to leave little to luck and chance...