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...stopped at an R.A.F. check point at Nicosia airport four days later, a British security officer quietly took Makarios into custody. In his flowing black robes the archbishop was led into the airport, past the Greek Airlines plane waiting to take him to Greece, to another corner of the tarmac where an R.A.F. Hastings transport plane was parked. Already in custody beside the Hastings were three other Cypriot clerics, including Kyprianos Themistok-leous Kyriakides, Bishop of Kyrenia. At 4:30 p.m. the Hastings took off for Kenya, where the Cypriots were transferred to H.M. Frigate Loch Fada, which...
...small Jordanian plane rolled to a stop on the tarmac of Nicosia airfield on Britain's island of Cyprus, and from it wearily stepped a small, stooped, grey man in a rumpled brown pin-stripe suit. The man in mufti, scarcely able to hold back his tears, was Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb, 58, for more than a quarter of a century one of the most potent and famous figures of British imperial power in the Middle East. Last week, suddenly and savagely, the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan sacked and shipped off the desert proconsul who had made...
...entire Presidium of the Central Committee and all Cabinet ministers were on the tarmac at 6 p.m. when the gleaming Soviet plane taxied into Moscow's main airport. As Nehru, in Gandhi cap, white churidar (trousers) and brown sherwani (coat), a red rose in his second buttonhole, stepped from the plane, 18 Russian children released a cloud of white doves and rushed forward with huge bouquets of flowers. So engulfed in flowers was Nehru that Marshal Georgy Zhukov ordered Red army guards to pass the flowers over to Indian embassy officials. Premier Bulganin came forward and introduced his Cabinet...
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Persia, lit cigarette after cigarette with shaking hands as he stood on the tarmac of Teheran's Mehrabad airport one evening last week. At ten-minute intervals, planes glided in to land. None of them brought the news the Shah was waiting to hear: word of his missing brother, 32-year-old Prince Ali Reza, heir to the Iranian throne...
...bridges in the heart of London, the Mad Major had shot 15, missing Hungerford, Barnes and Kew because "the rising currents were tricky . . . and I didn't want to take any risks." Then he flew back to the Herts & Essex Airplane Club and stepped out on to the tarmac, a splendid, grey-haired figure (6 ft. 2 in.) in blue blazer and the wings of the Royal Aero Club. "I feel absolutely marvelous, marvelous," he said, ticking off the bridges as if they were fallen Fokkers...