Word: flew
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Senator Teddy Kennedy, after taking leave of North Carolina, flew to Paris to thank the French government for a $100,000 donation, then began a ten-day tour of European cities. In Italy, he met with businessmen. In Germany, he would talk with members of a fund-raising committee in Munich, explain the project to students in Hamburg and labor leaders in Frankfurt. Then on to Brussels and Zurich. There was even a stop at the Vatican to explain to the Pope about the library...
Bolivia's May 31 election was approaching, and it was time for President Victor Paz Estenssoro, running for a third term, to demonstrate that for all practical purposes he had disarmed his most violent opposition. Climbing into his DC-3, he flew to Oruro (pop. 81,000), market center of the country's tin-mining area and for years a stronghold of rebel Vice President Juan Lechin and his Communist-dominated mining unions. For good measure Paz invited U.S. Ambassador Douglas Henderson to come along as his guest...
...when he died last week at 85, more than 40 colleagues and President Johnson flew out to his funeral in Elsberry, Mo. Clarence Cannon had been 40 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, was its foremost parliamentarian, and had performed a considerable public service as an Appropriations Committee chairman who spent the taxpayers' money as charily as if it were...
...three of her lieutenants. With that, a young Negro demanded to know why Wallace supporters had not been arrested. Angered, Tawes ordered the Guardsmen: "Get that man." The Negroes piled themselves in a human pyramid to hide the offender, and the Guardsmen rushed to dig him out. Rocks flew. Shouted Tawes: "Give...
...ranking progressive cardinals flew in from northern Europe and made some headlines. Franziskus Cardinal König of Vienna, 58, chief negotiator between the Vatican and Hungary over Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, reported that Mindszenty would leave his exile in the U.S. consulate if the Pope directly asked him to, but was determined to stay in Budapest until the government gave the church an ironclad guarantee of freedom from persecution. Konig also predicted a Vatican Council ruling on mixed Protestant-Catholic marriages and the formation of a senate of bishops to help the Pope govern the church after the council completes...