Word: round-the-world
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...round-the-world tour last week, George Romney once more referred to his brainwashing gaffe, declaring that his 1965 experience in Viet Nam has put him on his guard, just as a broken bone, once knitted, is "stronger at the break than at any other point." Before a single bonehead gag was born, Romney winged off to Paris, was ignored by De Gaulle, conferred with Foreign Minister Couve de Murville, and then gushed: "I am impressed by the good relationship between the people of France and the U.S. There is a great deal in common in the leadership...
...commands his diverse enterprises from an inconspicuous red brick building on King's Square in Copenhagen. Near his desk hangs a world map on which colored magnets chart the day-by-day movements of Maersk Line ships. Says MØller: "What I do is operate a round-the-world bus service...
...location is known, two calculations of its range from any ship will determine position at sea. Under the Navy system, three Transit satellites circle the globe in 105-minute polar orbits at an altitude of 700 miles. Since the earth also rotates beneath them, the Transits provide round-the-world navigational checkpoints. Four Transit tracking and receiving stations in Maine, Minnesota, Hawaii and Point Mugu, Calif., track the satellites as they pass within range, then relay position data to a computer center at Point Mugu. There, projected twelve-hour paths for each satellite are calculated. The future position data...
...voted in 1958 to remain a colony of France, apparently content with the several mil lion dollars a year that the French spend to help support it. Or so it seemed un til last month, when Charles de Gaulle passed through on the first leg of his round-the-world tour. Unexpectedly, he was greeted by riots and demonstrations whose message to the French was clear...
...Amelia Earhart really lost at sea during her round-the-world flight 29 years ago-or was she a spy who died a captive of the Japanese...