Word: plane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said, "I'm tryin' to get us out of this weather. Now leave me be." California's Ronald Reagan is no braver. Congratulated recently because he seemed to have overcome his fear of flying, Reagan snapped back: "Overcome it, hell. I'm holding this plane up in the air by sheer will power...
Bayne had transfusions totaling 14 pints in Bombay, but remained in a coma. To make sure of an adequate supply of hepatitis-free blood from fellow volunteers, the Peace Corps chartered a plane and flew Bayne to Colombo, Ceylon, where the hospital ship Hope was anchored. Aboard the Hope, after more transfusions, Bayne emerged from his coma and began a slow but so far steady recovery. Last week, back home in Claremont, he felt strong enough to begin walking again. He can expect to be completely recovered in about three months. All he can remember of his brush with death...
...paintings speak for themselves, saying only, "It's curiosity that motivates me." Nonetheless, Night Journey, one of his most radical paintings, says something more. The title is taken from Arthur Koestler's The Act of Creation. To Koestler, the artist exists on a trivial plane of daily existence, but he must descend to a harrowing private Hades if he is to find fresh inspiration. Koestler quotes Sir Thomas Browne that "man is 'that great and true amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live not only like other creatures in diverse elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds...
...jump a jet plane...
...subsidiary of the U.S.'s Continental Air Lines, operates in Viet Nam, Laos and Thailand, and has become the prime commercial charter carrier in an area where ground travel is usually difficult and often impossible. In Viet Nam, which is home for half of its 50-plane fleet, CAS links dozens of airstrips from the DMZ to the Mekong Delta. Each month it carries 20,000 passengers and some 1,300,000 lbs. of cargo. Its customers, mainly U.S. contractors in Viet Nam, do not demand much in the way of frills. "Here you keep up your image...