Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Milton Richman enlarged on the theme for United Press International: "Cassius Clay finally made it. Today he is a martyr. Some martyr!... He promptly tosses names around like Jesus, Columbus, and Abraham Lincoln, the implication naturally being that some day his name may be bracketed with theirs. He has a long way to go before that. A long...
...Kiesinger and France's De Gaulle, Humphrey could look back on a hectic week of 14-hour work days in which he had ful filled the first part of his mission: "Listen and learn." The next step, for the U.S., even more than for its reverse Columbus, will be to act upon his findings...
...named by Columbus in 1493 in honor of England's St. Ursula, who, according to legend, was slaughtered while defending her virginity against pagans...
...America is now a space-faring nation," he says proudly. "This is a frontier good for millions of years. The only time remotely comparable was when Columbus discovered a whole new world. The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war. And the revelations of cosmography should shrink our egos down to size...
Even today, the Palazzo San Giorgio, headquarters of Genoa's port authority, contains no monument to Columbus; instead, it houses a life-size statue of one Francesco Vivaldi, a more representative native son, who in 1371 introduced compound interest into the city's banking system...