Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Support. The high-flying trip was no flight of pilot's fancy. Last month Air Force headquarters in Europe proposed to the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the U.S. challenge Soviet claims to the right to limit flight altitudes in the corridors. The Chiefs weighed the idea, agreed that the U.S. ought to establish its right to fly the corridors at any altitude it deems necessary; in the event of another Berlin blockade, the Air Force will certainly use the huge C-130s for long-distance hauls, which would require higher altitudes than the short prop hauls made...
...Walter Reed, would also give doctors a chance to find out whether the radiation treatment had arrested the spread of his cancer. After he found the answers, he would decide whether to 1) carry on as Secretary of State, 2) resign as Secretary but carry on in perhaps the high-level, influential capacity of presidential adviser on foreign affairs, or 3) resign and retire. Last week's clues, for the deduction-minded, were few. Said Dr. Kamin: "He's aggressive in his convalescence. He's perking up since he came to Florida. He stays in the pool...
...Greene called the State Department, got a 15-minute briefing, passed it along to his boss. "Well," said Dulles at one briefing's end, "let's go for a swim." After an hour in the pool, Dulles was ready for a light lunch: sandwich, glass of high-protein milk...
...same act is somehow less offensive if one of the trials is conducted by the Federal Government and the other by a state." In a surprising aside he noted that the majority opinions would work a hardship only on "the poor and the weak without friends in high places" who could "influence prosecutors not to try them again...
Bartle was not the coalition's target. The real enemy was City Manager L. P. (for Laurie Perry) Cookingham, 62, hired by the reform Citizens Association when it took over in 1940. In the pre-1940 high-flying days of Tom Pendergast's corrupt rule, after-hours liquor sales were a big business, and so were gambling and prostitution; the businessman's lunch hour at the popular Chesterfield Club on Ninth Street was famous for its stark-naked waitresses. City Manager Cookingham cleaned up the town, got going on new roads, schools, sewers, etc., created an environment...