Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this issue appears John Graham Dowling's last story (see Frontier, 1955, HEMISPHERE). His assignment in Paraguay finished, Buenos Aires Bureau Chief Dowling was flying south to the revolt in Argentina last week when he was killed in a fog-bound airliner crash, five miles from Asuncion. He was the ninth correspondent killed on foreign assignment for TIME...
Through the brooding noonday fog, a navy plane swooped down toward Buenos Aires' spreading Plaza de Mayo. Watchers in the busy plaza felt no alarm; air force planes were scheduled to drop flowers at midday on the plaza's Roman Catholic cathedral in honor of Argentine Liberator José de San Martin, whose tomb is in the church. But instead of dropping flowers, the plane loosed two dark objects that hurtled downward toward President Juan Perón's headquarters, the block-long Casa Rosada (Pink House) standing at the other end of the plaza...
Actually, President Smith's "message" was painfully clear. Stripped of such Smith fog as "I want a magazine with scope, not scoop," he had one simple objective: to try to put the company on its feet. When Smith was named president more than a year ago, he knew he had a hard job ahead of him. (Collier's had just taken a drastic step to save itself by changing from a weekly to a biweekly.) But it was harder than he expected. Less than a month after he took over, he found that Crowell-Collier, once...
After that, for days, fog followed wind only to be followed in turn by more fog...
...article on Formosa ... I hope, however, you will permit me to point out that the report on General MacArthur's "historic blunder" was inaccurate. In July 1950 I was the chief of the Chinese mission in Japan. I accompanied the general to Formosa. There was a heavy fog that day . . . Our President waited in his car. Suddenly, we came out of the clouds and landed. General MacArthur asked me to get off the plane first so that I could introduce him to our officials. Vice President Chen Cheng was standing beside the gangway when the general stepped down...