Word: reached
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Franklin Roosevelt was the first President to take to the air and dramatically expand a President's reach, flying in 1943 to Casablanca in a Boeing Clipper to meet Churchill and De Gaulle. Harry Truman sped to Wake Island to parley with General Douglas MacArthur in a Douglas DC-6 called the Independence. Ike was hailed throughout the world in the Columbine, a slope-nosed Lockheed Constellation. All made momentous trips, heightened by the marvel of American aviation that shrank the world dramatically with each new President...
...those who deal in it, jade is a gamble. What leaves Burma seems mostly to be rocks, occasionally dotted with a tantalizing protrusion of green. When the rocks reach Thailand, after a journey of up to three days by truck, mule, boat and human porter, Chinese buyers guess how much jade, and what kind, may lie hidden beneath the drab surface of each stone. A skillful or lucky buyer can pay perhaps $5 per Ib. for rock that may yield thousands of dollars in jade...
...world, most of them oral only, which makes life difficult for Christian missionaries sworn to spread the word of God as widely as possible. Most Bible societies, in fact, concentrate mainly on getting adequate translations into the major written languages. But the Summer Institute of Linguistics has a longer reach. For the past 42 years, following the teachings of its founder W. Cameron Townsend, S.I.L. teams have been seeking out tiny, isolated tribes in remote corners of the world. With a little help from tape recorders, phonetics and the science of linguistics, they create written language out of the primitive...
...strain of flu virus now spreading through the Northeast could reach Harvard, Dr. Sholem Postel, acting director of the University Health Services (UHS), said yesterday...
...Joseph P. Reardon of the Massachusetts Center for Communicable Diseases said yesterday he expects at least some of the A Texas strain to reach Massachusetts, although none has yet been reported...