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...story of Adam Troy, Korean war veteran, who dreams of Texas while piloting his schooner Tiki past such hazards as a pigeon-breasted murderess peddling a hot black pearl. The Tiki and Captain Troy are also headed for a hurricane, an engine-room fire, a rock fight on Pitcairn Island, a death struggle with a gigantic eel-if the show lasts long enough...
...Cape Canaveral has the wrong geography for polar orbits. If a satellite launcher is aimed either north or south from the cape, it must pass over densely populated areas while still in the dangerous early stages of its flight. The nearest land south of Vandenberg is the Pitcairn Island group in the South Pacific, more than 4,000 miles away...
...life: "Giving is living," said Parkin Christian, 74, great-great-grandson of Mutiny on the Bounty's Fletcher Christian. Rugged (6 ft. 3 in.) ex-Magistrate Christian heads the Adventist Church on Pitcairn Island (in the South Pacific), whose inhabitants are all Adventists. "If only receiving," he added...
...first White House Autogiro landing was made April 22, 1931, when James Ray stepped out of a Pitcairn to receive the 1930 Collier Trophy from President Hoover. President Taft witnessed the first airplane landing there (by Harry Atwood...
...warships.* Britain's colonies were picked up, along with the commonwealth, in what the British like to call "a fit of absence of mind." Most of them were the concomitants of sea power and the search for overseas markets, but some were political accidents, like the colony of Pitcairn Island, where mutineers from the Bounty settled...