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Most of the navigation was done by the Clipper's own charts and navigation handbooks. Though it was an "emergency operation," chances are that a new Pan-American route will evolve from the Clipper's long voyage home. This week Pan American had already established a new and secret route to China, taking one week...
...Basic approach to English that they learned it and introduced it into the schools in Russia. And Massachusetts successfully employs Basic English in teaching our language to that section of its population which is foreign born. The Committee's high point thus far came when it saved a Pan-American friendship scheme by rushing post-haste to the University to North Carolina and teaching our language in six weeks to 120 foundering South American exchange students...
Brought to the U.S. as guests of the Amateur Athletic Union (at a cost of some $6,000), Nadadora Lenk and five of South America's flashiest male swimmers will compete in eleven U.S. meets, will show U.S. rivals what to expect when, and if the Pan-American Games are held at Buenos Aires beginning next November. Miss Lenk has swum 200 meters in 2 min. 56 sec., 400 meters in 6 min. 15.8 sec. Best breaststroke time chalked up by a U.S. girl: 3:14.8 for 200 meters, 6:44.6 for 400 meters...
...Dargue studied French and British methods of training air corps personnel, began whooping it up for a bigger air force in the '20s. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for successfully leading five amphibians on an 18,000-mile flight through South America, the first of the Pan-American aerial good-will tours. Over Buenos Aires another plane crashed into Dargue's. While he was still too bewildered to think straight, he was thrown from his wrecked plane. His ripcord caught in a bit of debris which opened his parachute and he floated to safety...
...Bernard Fleischaker '42, representing the Harvard Pan-American Society, commented at the conference that "Harvard lacks sufficient courses on Latin-American civilization, is void of such cooperation among its instructors in the field, and is not interested in the establishment of a department...