Word: round-the-world
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Cruises come in all shapes and sizes, from the Caronia's annual round-the-world ($2,875-$ 14,000) to Eastern Steamship Corp.'s all-expenses weekend sprees starting at $59 between Miami and Nassau. There are special cruises emphasizing bridge (with Charles Goren), culture (Japanese brush painting and photography). And for the "adventurous"-meaning those with a hankering for hardship, seamanship, courtship or strong drink-there is something called a "Windjammer Cruise...
...hairy occasion, three missionaries were washed overboard, but the only passenger who seems to have been lost permanently is Miss Sara Reiser, 70, who disappeared last month during a walk on one of the Galápagos Islands-a port of call on Burke's round-the-world cruising brigantine Yankee...
...story about the death of Bud Ekins in your Oct. 25 issue leaves out too much about the man. It is ironic that he should be remembered for a round-the-world race with Dorothy Kilgallen and that his departure should serve as a kickoff for a story of her early exploits. Ekins looked upon the race as a lark. He had said to his associates at the Union-Star, "There is something more important to a working, writing newspaperman than a promotion stunt." Ekins was a brilliant and courageous reporter, and he held the principles of good journalism sacred...
...informal conference was suggested by Sukarno, who was reclining in Japan on the first leg of a round-the-world holiday. Though the invitation was somewhat startling, Abdul Rahman responded quickly, flew off to Tokyo for two lengthy closed-door sessions with his old adversary. Before long, they were laughing and joking loudly. Between chuckles, they agreed to a "cease-fire" that would end "acrimonious attacks and disparaging references" against each other. Promising to settle outstanding problems in "a spirit of neighborliness," the two leaders scheduled a foreign ministers' conference this week among their two nations and the Philippines...
...Obvious Man. After the election, Smith briefly held a State Department job, accompanied Vice President Johnson on a round-the-world trip. When old Joe Kennedy suffered a stroke in December 1961, Smith moved to New York to oversee some Kennedy financial enterprises. But last summer he turned up again in Boston-this time to lend his now mature experience to ironing out the wrinkles in Teddy Kennedy's victorious senatorial campaign...