Word: planes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this era of wing-footed Prime Ministers, who find it easier to pop over in a plane than to telephone. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had been in and out of London on several occasions, and always welcome. Thus nobody expected anything untoward when an equally respected figure, West German President Theodor Heuss, 74, arrived to pay a call. But Heuss also happened to be the first German head of state invited to Britain on a ceremonial visit since Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1907, and he came as a symbol of the German nation. In the intervening 51 years Britons and Germans...
...make her Paris Opera debut, go on to the Vienna Opera. July will be given over mostly to new recordings in Rome. Tebaldi's pace would probably be even more furious if it were not for the fact that she finds it "a sufferance to get into a plane," and consequently travels almost exclusively by train and boat...
Sketch bought anyway, visualizing the journalistic impact of Jane's thighs and sighs ("Shiv is mine! I won't let her take him away from me"). The editors packed her, Reporter Benson, a photographer and a staff sob sister onto the next plane to Naples, to confront the unsuspecting Shiv. Twenty-three thousand feet over Anzio, Italy, minutes short of Naples, the Viscount bearing Jane and company and 22 other passengers was rammed by an Italian air force jet. Dead with all the rest: the Sketch four, in pursuit of an essentially phony story...
RECORD FLIGHT across U.S. was set in trial run by American Airlines' first Boeing 707 jetliner in preparation for regular runs which begin in January. Los Angeles-New York time: 4 hrs. 43 min. At average 630 m.p.h., jet shaved the previously prevailing commercial piston-plane time by three hours...
Formed in 1904, the Flying Club has been inactive in recent years because it had no airplane. But last year Robert A. Bryan, a student at the Divinity School, offered the club the use of his two-seater. Members pay the insurance on Bryan's plane, and buy their own fuel...