Word: planeloads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sanford's Xit, an ink eradicator, was also fine for removing banana-leaf stains, a common island washday problem. When this intelligence, duly confirmed by a home test, appeared in "Readers' Exchange," it generated such a demand that the U.S. manufacturer had to fly in an emergency planeload-which vanished in a day. So many similar hints poured in ("For those who have no dustpan. Wet the edge of a newspaper. Place it on the floor and sweep residue onto this"), that Columnist Heloise soon had a reputation as a household authority...
...Planeload. The Communists would be happy to stick around. Happiest of all were the Red Chinese, who were gleeful to find themselves back at a bargaining table-and propaganda forum-with the civilized world. The chosen delegate was chunky, Paris-educated Marshal Chen Yi, 60, who has been Foreign Minister for three years and who, as a veteran of the 1927 Nanchang uprising and commander of the rearguard in Mao Tse-tung's Long March in 1934, is one of Chinese Communism's elder statesmen. Predictably, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was at hand at the airport...
Landing in Rabat in his unscathed plane, Brezhnev found Moroccans in a mood to credit the Russian version of the incident. Tearfully, Moroccan Minister of Information Ahmed Alaoui recalled the French capture four years ago of a planeload of Algerian leaders on the way back to Tunis after a conference in Morocco. "Every time Morocco has guests, France refuses to respect the rules of good will," he complained...
...fishing he keeps the Gaspé camp; for winter quail hunting he has a ten-room Civil War Plantation house on a lake in South Carolina; for football weekends he bought Chateau Chavaniac, a replica of Lafayette's villa in France, at Easton, Pa., frequently flies in a planeload of friends for Lafayette College games. He has an 1812 mansion in Morristown, NJ., which he has converted into an office, commutes to Manhattan twice a week. He lives on a 64-acre estate in nearby Harding Township with his wife Marian, close to their four children...
...drowned in gardens, balconied tenements, squatters' huts clinging to bare rock, bright new skyscrapers still wrapped in bamboo scaffolding. Coming in low over rooftops fluttering with blue and white laundry, the jet roars down upon the 8,000-foot runway of Kai Tak Airport. Thus, last week, another planeload of tourists landed amid the sights, sounds, smells and bracing excitement of Hong Kong...