Word: planes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...months (May 27). U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter, in his outrage, made a solitary trip to Gromyko's villa to warn the Russian Foreign Minister that "the early days of next week will determine the outcome of the conference." Deliberately, Herter let slip the fact that his plane was on stand-by notice, and when Gromyko protested that he was willing to go on negotiating indefinitely, Herter snapped back: "Well...
...inherit. The Economics Minister hastened home from Washington, angered not only by der Alte's cavalier change of mind but by numerous recent Adenauer slurs on Erhard's qualifications for West Germany's leadership. Alighting at Düsseldorf after an appropriately dramatic flight-his plane developed engine trouble, then was struck by lightning-Erhard threatened to resign from the Cabinet and denounced some "current lies." For one thing, he said, "I will fight the historical lie that I am less reliable and less competent than Dr. Adenauer in conducting international affairs. I can tell you that...
Battle Royal. It was, in fact, one of the worst fiascoes in the annals of royal touring, and it began the very moment Princess Margaret alighted from her plane at the airport. There, the lively Portuguese-gate crashers, airport mechanics and charwomen as well as invited guests -crowded around Margaret in a most un-British manner. According to London's Sunday Express, Margaret was MOBBED IN AIRPORT BATTLE, while a "grim-faced" Ambassador Sir Charles Stirling looked helplessly on. From then on, the British embassy and Portugal's Police Inspector José Passo were determined that the princess...
Nairobi police were waiting at the airport with a search warrant last week when Kenya's 28-year-old Tom Mboya got off the plane after a trip to the U.S. to receive an honorary degree at Howard University in Washington, D.C. For 2½ hours, as Mboya stood calmly aside, officials examined everything in his luggage. Reason for the bureaucrats' interest: on the flight home, Kenya's most dynamic African leader had stopped off at Tunis to meet with other leaders of the All-African People's Conference, formed last year in Ghana, which brought...
Conrad took off from Casablanca last week with a whopping 5,000-lb. overall weight (the plane weighs 1,504 Ibs. empty). As his 500-gallon gas supply drained away, he throttled his engine back from 125 m.p.h. to 100 m.p.h., flew most of the way "right on the deck" in good weather at less than 500 ft. Conrad's only crisis came as he neared the coast of Texas, when he decided to drink some tea. "The Arabs put mint in it, and it had become rancid," he explained. "Boy, was I sick!" "Everybody likes to break...