Word: plane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a brief period of hospitalization in the U.S. in 1966, Ohiri was released so that he could return to Nigeria to live out the rest of his life with his family. On the plane back he tried to write a collection of memoirs that he had been planning, but his once athletic hands could not even grip the pencil...
...romance flower between them and Mc Carthy, he moved with the ruthlessness of a Victorian father whose daughter has fallen in love with a dustman." McCarthy was not about to submit meekly. The morning after the election, he flew to Washington for a meeting with Bobby. Aboard the plane, he ran into Johnson Loyalist Tom McIntyre, and unleashed one of the sly barbs of which he is a master. "You shouldn't be traveling first class this morning, Senator," said McCarthy...
Meanwhile, the Navy brass is more than ever dissatisfied with its own ver sion, the F-111B. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee recently, Admirals Thomas Moorer, chief of naval operations, and Thomas Connolly, his deputy for air, maintained that the plane is still too. heavy and thus ineffective for carrier duty. Connolly blurted: "There isn't enough power in all Christendom to make that airplane what we want!" That jolted Navy Secretary Paul Ignatius, who presently seems to prefer the F-111B over any "paper airplane" his admirals might want to add to the naval aviary. Ignatius...
Quietly and secretly, technicians at Fort Knox, Ky., loaded an estimated $450 million worth of gold ingots onto a heavily armed convoy. The convoy proceeded to a nearby U.S. Air Force base, where the gold was loaded aboard a transport plane and flown to Britain...
...Hara, 47, Dublin's durable gift to Hollywood (50 films so far); and Charles Blair, 58, Pan American pilot who met Maureen in Ireland 21 years ago and earned his own fame in 1951 as the first man to solo over the North Pole in a single-engined plane; both for the third time; in St. Thomas...