Word: round-the-world
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...Three months ago, its U.S. affiliate bought the Georg Jensen chain of New York-area specialty shops. And next week the Rothschilds will join as a junior partner with the U.S.'s Manufacturers Hanover Trust in opening a new merchant bank in London, thus completing a typical round-the-world circle...
...sizable inter national carrier. Another big gainer was TWA, which was awarded rights to fly from the U.S. to Hong Kong, Taiwan and other places. By linking its new Pacific runs with its existing transatlantic ones, which go as far as Hong Kong, TWA will become a round-the-world air line...
...that "the Observer, quickest to capitalize on 'Chichysteria,' announced a transatlantic sailboat solo race for this summer." In fact, there was no question of the Observer capitalizing on Chichester's round-the-world voyage. The Observer has been sponsoring the singlehanded transatlantic race at four-year intervals since 1960. The winner in 1960 was Francis Chichester...
...flight began at Moscow's modern Sheremetyevo International Airport, where Aeroflot Official Aleksandr Besedin briefly spoke of a "new era" for the 46-year-old state airline, which has round-the-world aspirations. Then followed a wonderful Cossack sort of rush for the shining blue and white Ilyushin transport. Pilot Egorov had finished his session in Aeroflot's "prophylaxis" office, where, as all Aeroflot flyers must before every flight, he had taken a brief medical and psychiatric examination, and was making a walk-around inspection of the big aircraft. The 97 passengers crowded up the ramp, where their...
...seeking Britons floundering by dogsled across mushy Arctic Ocean ice from Point Barrow, Alaska, to the Spitsbergen archipelago, some 2,100 crevasse-ridden miles distant; last week the quartet was a third of the way along and having radio trouble. More lately, the Times has sponsored a nonstop, round-the-world solo sail, which Chichester calls "the Everest of the sea." Three yachtsmen, including two Britons who once rowed across the Atlantic together, have already set out; seven others are expected to cast off before the Oct. 31 deadline...