Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allowed to have a monopoly of defending the latter group. These two principles are justified." Pineau added: "But what is not, and what is even singularly paradoxical, is to conclude that the U.S. should lend its help to Nasser. Despite our bitterness, we cannot renounce either U.S. friendship or the Atlantic Alliance. It is our only safeguard against a fate similar to that of Hungary...
Blasphemous Candor. The transatlantic friendship was renewed, but it would be a different, perhaps a healthier relationship. It would be based on the realization that Britain, France and the U.S., old friends united by necessity and sentiment, have a common purpose in Europe, but only parallel-and sometimes even divergent-interests in other places...
...clock Sunday afternoon a combat-loaded Strategic Air Command B-52 Stratofortress plunked down at Baltimore's Friendship International Airport after a history-making journey. In 26 hours it had flown 13,500 miles, from Loring Air Force Base near Limestone (Maine) to Goose Bay (Labrador), to Thule (Greenland), north to the Pole, south to Anchorage (Alaska), thence to Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles. Abilene, Tampa, Key West, Miami, Atlanta and, finally, Baltimore...
Both planes were part of an eight-plane (four from Loring and four from Castle) training mission known as Operation Quick Kick. When crew members landed at Friendship their main impression of their speed-for-distance endurance flight was that their bottoms were terribly numb. To the U.S. and the world it meant far more than that: it was a timely reminder that the B-52 can reach (with hydrogen-bomb payloads) and return from the Soviet Union at jet speed if the need should arise...
Notable Example. When she resigned last week, Italy's Premier Segni cabled: "You have served with success the cause of Italian-American friendship." Wrote Rome's Il Tempo: "She has given a notable example of how well a woman can discharge a political post of grave responsibility." Added influential Il Populo: "News of her departure is met with regret everywhere in Italy...