Word: plane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unmet Plane. After the colorful crowds in Negro Africa, De Gaulle flew on to revolt-torn Algeria. This time, in contrast to De Gaulle's two previous visits to Algiers, the right-wing European leaders made no effort to turn out a welcome for the general, and the Committee of Public Safety, which masterminded the Algiers insurrection of last May, pointedly failed to turn out to meet De Gaulle's plane...
Over Cuba's revolt-riddled Oriente province one night last week, an Aero Commander two-engine plane outran a pursuing government DC-3. Then, its gas gone, the plane tried to glide into the nearby U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo and nosed into the nearby bay. Watchers at the base's radar screen saw it vanish-another mystery of the cloak-and-dagger Cuban civil...
Less than 72 hours later, in the middle of cop-filled Havana. Charles Hormel, 45, U.S. citizen, coolly identified himself to a TIME correspondent as pilot of the plane. A rebel sympathizer who married into a wealthy Cuban family 17 years ago, Dayton-born Charles Hormel (distant kin to the meat-packing family) began flying to rebel territory last October. Twenty-seven times he flew an arms-laden plane, usually rented at Miami International Airport, to Cuba. After ditching on flight 28, he swam ashore, and the rebels put him on a bus for Havana. The Navy recovered the plane...
...widow, Elizabeth Taylor, 26, and Mike Jr., 28. Todd's son by his first marriage, joined in an intricate legal maneuver by which, in effect, they sued themselves for $5,000.000. They asked that amount in damages from 1) two small Jersey corporations that owned and operated the plane in which Todd was killed last March, and 2) Michael Todd Co. (chief stockholders: Liz and Mike), which shared in "maintaining and controlling" the plane. Suing their own company was a fairly standard legal gimmick to provide funds for Liz's 15-month-old daughter and to lessen...
...Stacked Plane. In Hialeah, Fla., Charles R. Morris, who reportedly made a $100 bet with a man in a Hialeah bar that the plane the man was about to catch would be late taking off, was arrested for making a hoax phone call to Eastern Air Lines reporting a bomb on the aircraft...