Word: plane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Though it possesses two capital cities-Luangprabang for the royal family. Vientiane for the civil government-Laos has no railroad. Except for jungle paths, navigable rivers like the 1,200-mile Mekong, and barely 500 miles of all-weather road, all travel is by plane from rutted airstrips surrounded by tree-clad hills and swamps...
...minutes while a sergeant was summoned. Last week every daily newspaper in the capital city of Reykjavik was spread with flaming headlines. The "intruders" proved to be two officials of the Icelandic Civil Aviation Administration and two American pilots bound for a hangar where the Americans' plane was being repaired. A U.S. spokesman hastily explained that it was a mistake on both sides: the area where the men were halted was open during the day but restricted at night...
...Mboya's aid came prominent U.S. Negroes-notably ex-Dodger Jackie Robinson, Balladeer Harry Belafonte, Actor Sidney Poitier. In flowed the scholarships. The Americans chipped in plane fare; Africans chipped in pocket money. Carefully screened by Mboya, the 81 students enplaned for New York...
Meanwhile, Tina Onassis left her husband's yacht in Venice and retreated with her children to Paris; through her secretary she insisted that she "completely trusts her husband." Onassis commuted between Venice and Milan, finally scooped up Callas in his private plane and embarked on a cruise to Greece...
...hymns into the Eskimo tongue; of a heart attack; in Point Barrow, Alaska. Father Tom was guide in 1958 to a party of 19 U.S. scientists trapped on a narrow ice island when it was dislodged by a storm, kept up morale until the whole party was rescued by plane...