Word: planes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, he permitted a doctor to give him a sedative, and then, early one morning, he was carried on a stretcher into a white station wagon and driven to the airport for the trip to the Galveston hospital.* On the way, in his National Guard plane, Long once again erupted, demanded that the plane be turned back to Baton Rouge. Refused, he "busted" the accompanying Louisiana adjutant general to private, and "promoted" the pilot from lieutenant colonel to brigadier general. Still the pilot would not turn back, and Earl Long went to the white hospital room with...
Flying Bouquets. When Baudouin's plane touched down at Brussels' Melsbroek airport, he descended smiling to embrace his father, kiss his grandmother, shake hands with his handsome younger (25) brother Prince Albert, whose proposed marriage to Princess Paola Ruffo di Calabria at the Vatican had set off an anticlerical uproar in Belgium (TIME, June 8). Normally. Baudouin would have gone directly from the airport to his Laeken palace, bypassing busy Brussels, with its snarled, honking traffic. Instead, riding in an open limousine, the King made a 15-mile tour of his capital city, where hundreds of police...
...week's end junketing Sukarno reached Japan in his chartered Pan Am plane, celebrating his 58th birthday aboard. Before returning to his racked island nation, he intends to visit North Viet Nam and Cambodia. A spokesman for Sukarno said airily: "If it were a critical situation in Indonesia, the President would have stayed home...
...jungle to the east. The second C46 landed heavily in a soggy field 65 miles northeast of Managua, was burned by the 35 troops it carried when a damaged landing gear prevented takeoff. When a twelve-man foot patrol of Tachito's national guard arrived to examine the plane's remains, the rebels ambushed the soldiers. In the four-hour fight that followed, three guardsmen and three rebels were killed...
...Magazine (a word customarily capitalized by the society) sends 849 copies to Uganda and Kenya, 57 to Broken Bow, Neb., 73 to North Borneo, and one to Hunza, a Central Asian state so remote that the Magazine each month must be carried 12,000 miles by boat, train, plane, Jeep and native runner to accommodate its lone subscriber, His Highness the Mir. With remarkable loyalty, 87% of National Geographic subscribers voluntarily renew...