Word: moroccos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with pipe in hand and feet on desk, "is to cut the time in getting our product to its ultimate consumer." The product can be anything from a 4½ton Atlas missile to a bucket of paint; the consumer can be a Strategic Air Command grease monkey in Morocco, an Air Force fighter squadron in Tokyo, a missile-testing crew at Cape Canaveral. Adds Rawlings: "Since 1951 we've just about equipped the Air Force with jet equipment. We've written contracts for $93 billion and spent about $83 billion. For that...
Strolling through a trade fair in Casablanca two years ago. Morocco's King Mohammed V paused before a model of a DC-6 airliner, sighed longingly: "One day I shall return." "Return where, Your Majesty?" asked an aide. "To Madagascar, of course," replied the King...
Madagascar seemed the last place the King would want to see again. It is the Indian Ocean island to which the French had exiled the then Sultan in 1953, and kept him isolated for two years until his triumphal return to preside over Morocco's independence...
...personal O.K. for the journey, Mohammed V unexpectedly set out on a "pilgrimage'' to retrace the route of his exile. With him aboard the royal DC-7 (equipped with salon, bedroom, movie screen, office), the King took his 29-year-old son, Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, and Morocco's Minister of Interior. "We have decided that the heir apparent shall accompany us during the course of this exceptional voyage, in view of its symbolic character." the King explained. "Our son Hassan has shared our exile. He was our companion, our mainstay and our collaborator in the service...
King with thankful tears, and Corsican officials toasted the occasion in champagne. At week's end Mohammed V flew on to Madagascar, confident that Morocco's squabbling politicians would not seize on his absence to stir trouble back home, hopeful that his symbolic journey would remind them of the unity his people once shared...