Word: around-the-world
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Awarded an around-the-world flight by the One World Award Committee, Inc., in Manhattan: Roger Nash Baldwin, former director, now chairman, of the National Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union, "in recognition of ... 30 years of outstanding work . . . and for his contribution to the formulation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
Died. Helen Gregory MacGill, 76, Canada's first woman jurist (the Vancouver, B.C. juvenile court for 22 years); Cosmopolitan magazine-sponsored globetrotter of half a century ago, who lost out to a typhoon when she tried to beat Nellie Ely's 72-day around-the-world record; in Chicago...
...concession was announced by the State Department which said that Britain, by inference, had granted permission for American airliners to land in England, a right which had been denied heretofore because the United States refuses to allow British around-the-world planes to land at Hawaii...
...young musician who recently completed an around-the-world tour and will remain in retirement for two years to rest and study is (1 Yehudi Menuhin, 2 Inez Gorman, 3 Ruth Slenczinski, 4 Nelson Eddy, 5 Doris Humphrey...
...After an around-the-world tour that covered 75,000 miles, took him to 13 countries and 73 cities, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 19, returned to Manhattan last week, gave a performance that was to mark a milestone in his amazing career...