Word: return
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lightning slashed the white peaks of the boiling thunderclouds below as a pair of silver-and-orange F8U Crusader jet fighters streaked smoothly down the Carolina coast on the return leg of a high-altitude flight to Boston. Lieut. Colonel William Henry Rankin, U.S.M.C., sitting under the curved glass canopy of the lead jet, took his two-plane flight over an angry anvil of cloud, sat back casually as his eye ran across the instrument panel. Altitude: 47,000 feet. True air speed: 500 knots. It was a crisp, sunlit flight, and the only problem in sight was to bore...
...Queen's secret had been well kept until she had a chance to return to Britain and be examined by her own physician, Lord Evans. Now it could be told that back in July Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker had been let in on the secret (as had Ike and Mamie), but that it was the Queen alone who had decided not to curtail her tour except for those two days at Whitehorse in the Yukon. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana had also been told, early because, as the palace announced last week, the Queen...
...Will Return." In the first postwar years. Soustelle's political fortunes were inseparable from De Gaulle's. He became first his Chief of Information, then his Minister of Colonies. And when De Gaulle, disgusted with partisan bickering, dramatically retired to the rural peace of Colombey-les-Deux Eglises, Soustelle followed him into the wilderness, became chief of the Gaullist opposition forces in Parliament...
...attitude that when Socialist Premier Guy Mollet yanked Soustelle from his job as Governor General, he was carried shoulder-high through Algiers by French colons in one of the wildest demonstrations in the city's history. Soustelle promised the crowd: "This is not farewell. I will return when Algeria needs...
...agreement, but the plane-short British forced a compromise that provided for an equitable exchange of traffic between nations signing a bilateral pact. Since then the U.S. has often ignored breaches by foreign airlines, drawn criticism from U.S. carriers for giving out fat new routes without getting much in return...