Word: plane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hanky-Panky" makes no announcement of flights until about a half hour before they take off, McGuire notes, though the air-crews often suspect a flight is in the offing when the maintenance on a plane is finished and night approaches. Once the crews in their respective bars are alerted and "poured out into their planes," they take off on their flights to Biafra, juggling flight plans so as to fly always at night, when the Egyptians piloting Nigeria's MIG's refuse...
...Nigerians claim they shot the plane down--McGuire believes it crashed of natural causes, one might say--but one thing is sure; it was demolished. "The tail, that's the only thing you can see, sticking up in the jungle." Aboard were Augie Martin, a black American pilot earning a little extra money while on vacation from Seaboard World Airlines; Martin's wife Gladys, whom McGuire thinks had come along to gather material for an article on Biafra; Jess Meade, also an American; and a Rhodesian with the pseudonym of "Bill Brown." Mr. Martin's head was never found, McGuire...
...wellknown cliche, but McGuire slides into this type, probably not as a sham. He is more of a soldier of fortune than soldier, however, for he says he never carried a gun, even for personal protection in Biafra. ("I figured we had enough guns and ammo on the plane already.") He left Biafra at the end of July, after his mother died in the United States and his close call made him suspicious of the safety of the airlift's flying procedures but he wants to return there, this time for expenses only...
...feel good for the first time," Humphrey told reporters aboard his campaign plane. "We're not stepping on so many rocks or in so many holes as we were at first." Nobody was convinced that the Vice President had completely cut his bonds with Johnson. Certainly nobody suggested that he had made anywhere near enough progress to cut appreciably into Nixon's vast lead. But some polls taken by the Democratic National Committee showed that he was making progress, and that may be enough to give Humphrey's campaign a shot of desperately needed confidence...
...rescue her from a tricky question about the Pans peace talks. Joan was in Hoosier land campaigning for Bayh's reelection, reminding her audiences that it was he who had risked his life to pull her husband Teddy out of the wreckage in that near-fatal light-plane crash near Springfield, Mass., tour years ago. At one rally she let her listeners in on a little family secret by introducing former Notre Dame President Father John Cavanaugh as "the best priest friend Ted and I ever had " Said Joan: "We wanted him to marry us, but Cardinal Spellman said...