Word: plane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...driven by Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, the man he has picked for his proconsul in Syria-now known as the United Arab Republic's "Northern Region." Serraj drove him to the airport, where Nasser's private airplane waited.' Under cover of darkness and secrecy, the plane headed southwest past Israel's intervening airspace, and arrived safely back in Cairo...
...rebel radio stridently claimed that the rebels had somewhere found a two-plane air force that had bombed Bandung, and a "navy" that was maneuvering in the Strait of Malacca. But Bandung was reported unbombed and the navy unsighted. In Singapore a U.S. squadron consisting of the cruiser Bremerton and two destroyers stood by, ready to evacuate U.S. civilians from the rubber plantations and oilfields if the war really hotted...
...Tidy Siren." Main driving force behind Edward D. Stone's new era of success, he firmly avows, is his second marriage to a fiery, possessive and vivacious Latin beauty Stone calls "the tidy siren." It was on a plane to Paris that Stone first met Maria Elena Torch, of Cleveland, a flashing brunette of mixed Italian and Spanish parentage who had come to New York, was then working as foreign editor on the short-lived quarterly, Fashion & Travel...
...Maria, now 31, remembers the meeting, "I noticed him because there was some woman seeing him off. and a man seeing me off, and we were both kissing goodbye. When the plane took off, I took a long look at this man in a baggy tweed suit, unshaven, a mess. He looked like some professor. But when we started to talk, I realized he was the most intelligent man I had ever met. By the time we were over London and the dawn was coming up, he proposed to me. It was romantic and wonderful." Squiring Maria around Paris morning...
...South Carolina fed fires already raging. By unhappy coincidence, Nikita Khrushchev chose this moment to write Bertrand Russell a 9,000-word letter attacking U.S. Secretary Dulles' stand on disarmament. This letter, published in the left-wing New Statesman, warned that "one absurd incident" involving a bomb-carrying plane could spread "horrible death," touch off a world...