Word: round-the-world
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...senior citizen on a round-the-world tour needs to set aside some time for idleness. Last week Charles de Gaulle, nearing the end of an odyssey that b gan three weeks ago in riotous Djibouti, took time out as the Senior Citizen of France in its island colonies in the blue Pacific. In Nouméa, capital of New Caledonia in the Coral Sea, he largely confined himself to an avuncular speech in Coconut Square. Then he touched down at the curious condominium of New Hebrides, jointly run since 1906 by the French and the British. French officials...
...ENDLESS SUMMER. In a documentary that captures the appeal of a dangerous and dazzling sport, two skillful young surfers search for the perfect wave on a round-the-world tour...
...potential with a splashdown in landlocked Wichita, Kans. Now audiences everywhere, surf-bored by the dry run of Hollywood's beach-party musicals, may relish the joys of Summer as it follows a pair of skillful California surfers, Mike Hynson and Robert August, on a three-month, round-the-world tour in search of the perfect wave...
...canals where Thais still fish, drink, bathe and eat the lettuce. Venerable Siamese villas with cupolas like bowler hats squat cheek by jowl with neon-lit bars, cinemas and boxing pits. The jet age has made Bangkok the air hub of southern Asia, the halfway house for round-the-world trippers from the U.S. It is also rest and recreation for a carefully regulated 500 G.I.s at a time, on leave from Viet Nam. Some float down the Chao Phraya to visit Bangkok's Floating Market. A few are interested in watching the Thais fly their fighting kites...
Howard Hughes, the billionaire eccentric, has had money and power in quantity. But nothing ever seemed to mean so much to him as his control of Trans World Airlines. A pilot obsessed, Hughes, now 60, once set a coast-to-coast speed record, flew round-the-world in 91 hours in 1938, conceived the Constellation airliner, was badly hurt in two crashes. He bought control of TWA from Lehman Bros, in 1939, becoming the only operating chief of a major U.S. airline who also owned it. After a long series of bitter battles with bankers and managers, he found...