Word: airport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hailed Ike with a birdlike warbling that sounded like you-you-you. Ike laid a red, white and blue wreath, stood bareheaded for a long two minutes in tribute to the dead of his former North Africa command. Then he drove on past big, shouting crowds to the airport, and four hours after he landed in Tunisia, was steaming toward Toulon...
...gone to fulfill a "cherished wish" and to "do a little bit of personal discovery," was the most stupefying mob scene since the death of Gandhi. It was getting dark as Eisenhower, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and President Rajendra Prasad began the drive from the New Delhi airport into the city. From villages and country valleys and the city itself had come more than a million people, who had heard about the visit from radios, newspapers and village criers. In bullock carts, buses and trucks (supplied by the government and private businesses), on bicycles, and on foot, they came...
Travel Allowance. In Uxbridge, England, Michael Heath was fined $14 for parking his car at London Airport by a sign reading "Parking limited to 30 minutes," then flying to Canada for a three-week vacation...
While the plumpish, corseted blonde doled out details (she was a "friend" of the escapee, who had phoned her from Havana for money), the Herald put in a quick call to Miami International Airport. There, by luck, the paper had a man waiting for the next plane to Havana. What's more, Reporter James Coe Buchanan was just the man for the story. On previous Cuban assignments, he had hidden out with Castro rebels, filed eyewitness accounts of the bloody skirmishing. And last summer, when Castro troops trapped a tiny invasion force from the Dominican Republic, wiry, 43-year...
...Upstairs. Buchanan ordered a limousine for the ride to the airport, picked up some gauze bandages at a drugstore, knocked on Young's door-and walked right into the arms of three Castro intelligence agents, who had tracked Young to his hideaway. It was only then that Buchanan was certain that his man was really Austin Frank Young...