Word: plane
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interview aboard his plane, the vice president criticized a Washington consulting firm run by one of his longtime associates for citing close ties to the vice president in trying to win a contract representing the new government of Haiti. "I denounce it. I don't like it. I think it's wrong, he said
When Ferdinand Marcos fled the Philippines more than two years ago, a U.S. Air Force plane flew him into comfortable exile in Honolulu. But last week American hospitality came to an abrupt end for the ousted President. In New York City a federal grand jury indicted Marcos, 71, and his wife Imelda, 59, on six counts of racketeering and diverting more than $100 million taken from the Philippine treasury into artworks and real estate in Manhattan. As sweeping as the indictment was, it covered only a fraction of the billions of dollars that Marcos is thought to have stashed away...
...candidate's chartered plane fires back across the continent against the direction of old westering tracks 30,000 ft. below. Inside the plane, the clerisy of "spin," that is, the priesthood of partisans sent around to see reporters after major campaign events and impart the right spin, have done their work up and down the aisles, like Polonius and Hamlet discussing the ! shapes of clouds. The candidate is dozing up front. The jackals of the press have settled into their routines of mild carousal...
Still, it is the old America too. The plane drops into cold drizzle at Green Bay, Wis., and there a crowd awaits that would have been no different from the people Kennedy or Nixon might have dropped out of the same sky to try to win. The band, a little forlorn in the night, is drums, electronic keyboard piano and electric guitar, and it sounds like a Milwaukee roadhouse on a Saturday night. It plays Happy Days Are Here Again. The scene is fervent and lonely...
...quart or so of liquor a day. He still lives in his native upstate New York, where he keeps his mother company in her house. When he learns that his older brother William, a retired colonel in the U.S. Army, is dying of cancer in Hawaii, Exley hops a plane along with "the old lady," and another nonstop monologue is under...