Word: villacoublay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army and air force warmed up. The first man, Army Captain R. M. ("Red Rory") Walker, 29, rode a motorcycle from Marble Arch to a floating dock on the Thames, leaped into a helicopter, transferred to a jet trainer at Biggin Hill R.A.F. field for the flight to Villacoublay, eleven miles from the Arc, caught a helicopter to Paris' Issy heliport and finally hopped onto a second motorcycle for the last spurt to the Arc. His time, including 4 min. for the last 4½-mile motorcycle dash: 57 min. 47 sec. "Sissy stuff," roared an R.A.F. rival...
...after Geneva, Mendès landed at Villacoublay airport in his French air force DC-3. He ran his fingers through his wife's poodle cut, then kissed her. He declined to review a guard of honor, because: "It's hardly the occasion for that sort of thing." He ordered his car along side streets into Paris, in case the people were lining the main roads. But Mendès need not have bothered. There was relief that the war in Indo-China was ended-nothing more. Fewer than 250 Parisians waited outside Mendès' Quai...