Word: owning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortage of Dancing Girls. But once the two mayors were buckled in their C121 (Constellation) seats for the flight to Tyndall, the story of their disillusionment-as recorded in sworn statements by Air Force and civilian witnesses and bolstered by Air Force movies-read differently. First off, Mayor Fitzpatrick asked...
More Dead Than Alive. Next day, as the 100 or so other Air Force guests crowded around closed-circuit TV sets at Tyndall to watch the high-altitude shoots, Healy and Fitzpatrick. who did not show up for the demonstration, decided that they had had enough of that "William Tell...
Price of Admission. Why was De Gaulle holding off? In Britain, eager for a quick summit, the chagrined press cried "Vanity." De Gaulle's invitation to Khrushchev (which Khrushchev promptly accepted) was similarly treated by British editorialists as the general's wish to even the score with Macmillan...
In his own oracular way, De Gaulle himself gave two other reasons for his desire to postpone a summit. The first is a fundamental disagreement with Britain and the U.S. over what a summit should be. Macmillan, in particular, talks of a series of summits, none of which would be...
By the Numbers. By Western standards, Soviet weddings are not really weddings at all, but a bit of bureaucratic business that young couples must go through at the local bureau of ZAGS, where births, deaths and marriages alike are registered. The couple can turn up in ordinary work clothes, get...