Word: plane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British argue that they had no option but to let him go where he wanted: to East Germany to rejoin his 84-year-old father, who is now professor emeritus of the Red-run University of Leipzig. After refusing to talk to newsmen in Britain, on board his plane or when he landed in East Berlin, Klaus Fuchs finally gave an interview to a London reporter who tracked him down at a vacation cottage near East Germany's Lake Wandlitz. Had he been decently treated in prison? "Yes." Was he still a Marxist? That, said Fuchs, should be answered...
...International Red Cross. Like most European reminders of past alliances, this 19th century campaign had its awkward details (Napoleon III had then grabbed Nice and Savoy for himself), but De Gaulle was happy to invoke the memories of Magenta and Solferino as he landed in his sleek Caravelle jet plane at Milan's Malpensa Airport...
...months ago a desperate military attache in Russia's Burmese embassy. Colonel Mikhail I. Stryguine, tried to leap to freedom from his hospital window, was nabbed by Russian goons, spirited off to Rangoon airport, and flown away in a Communist plane (TIME, May 18). Last week another Russian embassy staffer there wanted out. This time he made...
...grand tour, Malinda arrived with a chaperone, a pressagent and nine suitcases containing 25 costume changes (including a native dress for each land she would visit). But she had little time to enjoy them. Hardly was she through with her style show when she had to hop a plane to repeat the same act in Tokyo, then on to Osaka, Hong Kong, Manila, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Honolulu and San Francisco...
...father's dark good looks and his Irish mother's charm and temper. He can be blunt or suave-but in either case he is likely to know what he is talking about. A pilot since he was 20, he has flown every type of Air Force plane, has been checked out to pilot the huge KC-135 jet tanker. Quesada wields more power than any U.S. air administrator before him: all the duties of the old Civil Aeronautics Administration, plus the safety-rule-making powers once held by the Civil Aeronautics Board...