Word: vnukovo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world has long suspected that Charles de Gaulle has a mystical control over the atmosphere, and last week's performance in Russia confirmed it-climatically and politically. From the moment his tricolored, twin-flagged (French and Soviet) Caravelle touched down at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport to his week's end sortie into Siberia, De Gaulle trailed sparks and portents like a comet. Europe and the world scrutinized each move, each speech, each communique and each symbol for an indication of De Gaulle's intentions...
...Reversal of Alliances"? Into Moscow's Vnukovo Airport flew French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville for a six-day visit-the first French mission to Moscow at that level since 1956. If De Gaulle's envoy was there to lend the Russians nothing more than an ear, this itself was interesting, since the Russians seemed to have something that they would like to whisper into it-talk of a new move against West Germany. In recent months the Russians have been hinting at an interest in renewing the moribund Franco-Soviet treaty of December 1944, under which...
...sunset, Khrushchev and Ustinov landed at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport, where a ZIL limousine waited. The long black car whipped across the Lenin Hills, along Kremlevskaya Quai, where lights glittered on the Moskva River...
...halfway to Moscow aboard an Aeroflot TU-114 turboprop before the Cuban people were told that he was gone. Even to his Russian hosts, Fidel Castro's visit seemed a surprise. Only two welcoming banners could be seen hanging in the 21° cold at Vnukovo airport. But out rolled a Red carpet, and Premier Nikita Khrushchev was on hand to snuggle into the beard when the Maximum Leader came bounding down the ramp...
...conversation drifted on, and meal followed meal-each the same as breakfast, with slight variations. At last the stewardess came back with word that Moscow was closed in. We put down in Murmansk, but soon our stewardess jubilantly announced that our pilot had talked Vnukovo airport in Moscow into letting us come in. Less than two hours later, the slightly less than nonstop flight came to an end in a perfect landing amid a blinding Moscow snowstorm...