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...Britain as to who was the first man to sail around the world [TIME, July 2]: Leonard Outhwaite, in Unrolling the Map, published in 1935, says that "the first individual known to history to have passed around the world was a treacherous East Indian slave" known as Malacca Henry. Magellan bought him when he was in the East with Almeida between 1504 and 1512 and took him back to Spain. Magellan made this voyage by traveling eastward from Portugal. When he made his great voyage he sailed westward, taking Malacca Henry with him. Thus, when Malacca Henry arrived once more...
...roundabout way, word came to London from Spain that the Festival of Britain's description of Sir Francis Drake as "the first man to sail 'round the world" just wasn't so. Drake set sail in 1577, patriotic Spaniards pointed out, and Portugal's Ferdinand Magellan started in 1519. Though Magellan was killed (on Mactan Island) before going full circle, his crew completed the trip...
From the Gulf of California to the Strait of Magellan, 125 million Latin Americans braced themselves hopefully this week for the gayest, gaudiest carnaval in years...
...road again; this time on a sleeper jump to Long Island to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the United Nations. He made no triumphant entry into Manhattan, thus avoiding an official greeting by Acting Mayor Vincent Impellitteri, the backslid Democrat. Instead, his private car, the Ferdinand Magellan, crossed Manhattan Island underground during the night and was sidetracked at Belmont Race Track. At 6:45 the President went out for a fast walk through the neighborhood. He looked rested and relaxed when in mid-morning a 113-motorcycle police escort led him to Flushing Meadow...
...special train clacked alongside the muddy, swollen Potomac, through the apple-green Appalachians and across the Midwestern flatlands into the West. At the end was a bulletproof special car, the Ferdinand Magellan, and inside it was pessimism-proof Harry Truman, bound for the hunt...