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Flying the same Beechcraft Bonanza used by the late Bill Odom for his 1949 record hop from Honolulu to Teterboro, N.J., Illinois Congressman Peter F. Mack Jr., 34, left Springfield on the first lap of his round-the-world "Abraham Lincoln Good Will Tour." The purpose: to visit the people of some 30 nations and convince them that "Americans don't want war any more than they do." He expects to be home by January with some results to report...
...Eagan's companion in a round-the-world tour, during which they fought the best amateurs in the British Empire...
Crooner Frank Sinatra, carrying on his round-the-world pursuit of Cinemactress Ava Gardner, entered new territory when he and Ava flew off to Mexico for "a quiet vacation" together. It turned out to be neither very quiet nor much of a vacation. At El Paso, when reporters asked if the junket was going to include plans for a quick south-of-the-border divorce from Wife Nancy (who is about to bring her own suit in California), Frankie snarled: "You're wasting your time. Why don't you go home and have your dinner?" In Mexico City...
Wherever Saturday Review of Literature Editor Norman Cousins went on a recent round-the-world trip, foreign editors confronted him with the same angry charge: the U.S. press is stifling world press freedom by its strangle hold on newsprint. In India, Greece, France, Italy, Egypt and Pakistan, says Editor Cousins in the current S.R.L., "invariably I would be asked . . . how did we square [our view of press freedom] with the incredible difficulties facing the world free press largely as a result of American manipulation of sources of paper supply...
...Devoir's strange opinions were supplied by a young (26) French Canadian writer named Jacques Hebert who set out on a round-the-world junket last June with an arrangement to send Le Devoir some travelogue pieces from faraway places. He reached Japan soon after the Korean fighting began, managed to get himself accredited as a war correspondent, and launched gaily into political punditry. Hebert is a Catholic and an antiCommunist; apparently his French Canadian isolationist-pacifist sentiments led him into echoing the Communist appeasement line on Korea almost as faithfully as though he were writing for Pravda...