Word: planes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharp rejection of Khrushchev's proposal to turn West Berlin into a "free city," nobody knew what else the U.S. thought should be done. Just out of the hospital, Secretary Dulles-who carries the U.S. State Department in his hat-took along position papers to study on the plane that bore him to Paris. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd saw a chance, in Germany's difficulties, to impress on the West Germans that British exclusion from Europe's Common Market is quite as important in British eyes as the Berlin crisis. On Berlin itself, the British argued...
...Zakaria, and called himself Crown Prince of Mauretania and General of the Liberation Army, but an alert Accra hotel clerk quickly tagged him as the deadbeat who had run up a ?79 bill on previous visits to Accra, and he was advised to leave town by the earliest possible plane...
There were seventeen problems: money; passports; tetanus-typhoid-yellow fever shots; a Greek landlady bearing an expensive product (Snyde would say, Beware! I hated him); reservations on a plane carrying ginger ale to be served with Dramamine at Gander; German, French, Italian, and Spanish for the Swiss Alps; Greek for the return voyage...How else could we preserve the rapture of passion which comes when you eat pastry at the Patisserie Cafe Morceau beside the girl you love...
Kramer had scarcely stepped off the plane before the Lawn Tennis Association of Australia spitefully banned his touring pros from its affiliated courts. Snapped one official: "Australia is Kramer's happiest hunting ground. He is out to break the amateur game, and if the L.T.A.A. gives in to him now, he will succeed." Kramer bristled, "I would expect this kind of treatment only in Russia," added coals to the fire by signing Doubles Star Mervyn Rose, ranked No. 4 in Australia...
...authenticity. To achieve it, Revell employs an intelligence network in 70 countries where the company's models are sold. When Revell decided to produce the then-secret Russian Yak-25, a jet fighter (nickname: the Flashlight), it collected photos and details from overseas clients, got everything but the plane's landing gear. Relying on their study of other Red aircraft, Revell's engineers designed the Yak's landing gear as they figured the Russians would. Four months later, an official Soviet photo proved Revell's design correct...