Word: planes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the Suez Canal one day last week, Israeli pilots angled in to shoot up Egyptian positions in what has become an almost daily operation. When the Egyptians retaliated by sending planes across the canal, Israeli antiaircraft gunners shot down one plane and an Israeli pilot bagged another. The two represented the 59th and 60th Israeli kills of Egyptian aircraft since the Six-Day War in 1967, against claimed Israeli losses on the Egyptian front of only eight of their own planes...
...squads presented contrasting styles at a meeting this afternoon. Keough's team had just filed off the plane in matching blue blazers, short haircuts, and a general air of All-Americanness...
...Gallo personally brought it from Champaign, Ill., to New York-it sat beside him in a first-class Ozark Air Lines seat. At first the package was too bulky to get the seat belt around, so Gallo was obliged to unwrap it. That caused quite a stir on the plane. "The hostesses came on the intercom," says Gallo, "and announced that they were pleased to have Myra Breckinridge on the flight with them today...
During the war years, the first blows of what Ted Kennedy called "some awful curse" began falling. Joe Jr., whom the ambassador was quite consciously raising to be President, died when his plane exploded over England in 1944. At the same time, Jack lay in a Boston naval hospital recuperating from injuries suffered as a result of the sinking of PT109. A few weeks later, daughter Kathleen's husband, the Marquess of Hartington, died leading an infantry charge in Normandy. Kathleen was to be killed four years later in a plane crash in France. A continuing heartbreak for Rose...
...enough. But the solid even-block front is an honestly urban form, as well as a visually harmonious one. And these block fronts didn't become bleak. This is partly because of the plantings. But also, the buildings these Victorians built bulge with eclectic detail that interrupts the facade-plane. Oriel and bay windows bend out to gather light...