Word: round-the-world
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Weeks ago, Churchill had told his faith ful squire Anthony Eden that he intended to retire soon after the Queen's return from her round-the-world tour. He was mortally tired; he still had his great moments, but the aftereffects of a stroke last year had left him often unfit to conduct the daily business of government...
...soppy. Newspapers employ droves of columnists to simper publicly over the beauty of small Prince Charles's dimples, to sigh over the elegance of Prince Philip's taste in haberdashery. When the Queen came home a fortnight ago, after six months' absence on her round-the-world tour, the sighs became a gale. Sample from Author Beverley Nichols: "At last she came to the Duke of Edinburgh and those two adorable children. 'I guess those are the four most important people in the world,' said a voice behind me." All this was too much...
When Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent left last month on his round-the-world tour (TIME, Feb. 15), Associate Editor Edwin Copps of TIME'S Canada section was assigned to cover part of the trip. Rather than take the entire six-week tour. Copps flew west to pick up the Prime Minister and party at the halfway point, follow him through India and Ceylon and to the Canadian troops in Korea. The result was some good firsthand reporting and a thorough workout for Copps...
Died. Major General Frederick LeRoy Martin, 71, veteran Army airman who organized and led the first successful round-the-world flight (1924) only to leave the four-plane expedition when his own plane crashed in Alaska; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Chief of Hawaii's Army air units when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor (1941), he saw more than a fourth of his 231 aircraft destroyed, was relieved ten days later (with Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, Lieut. General Walter C. Short) and sent back to the U.S. Neither blamed nor exonerated in ensuing investigations, he held training...
...cold, raw afternoon, but more than 500 well-wishers turned out at Ottawa's Rockcliffe Airport to see Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent take off last week on a round-the-world good-will tour. As the Prime Minister's limousine pulled up at the airstrip, they broke through the rope barriers in a rush of friendly enthusiasm. St. Laurent, politely doffing his black Homburg, plunged into the crowd, shaking hands and alternately bidding goodbye and au revoir as he worked his way toward the plane...