Word: sailings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brig-of-war Somers was wallowing through the long mid-Atlantic rollers under balmy skies, four days' sail from the Virgin Islands. Converted into a training ship, the brig was on her way home from what had begun ten weeks earlier as a routine cruise. But a terror unique in the U.S. Navy's history had mocked routine. From the main yardarm dangled three lifeless, hooded figures. They had been hanged by order of the ship's captain. Reason: alleged conspiracy to mutiny...
...Peale was twelve, his indigent mother apprenticed him to an Annapolis saddlemaker. Said he later: "[I] would much rather practice the use of my tools than ride in a coach drawn by six horses." At 25, having practiced saddlemaking, watch repairing and portrait painting with some success, he set sail to learn more about art from Benjamin West in London...
...penned introduction, eloquently recited by French Cinemactor Jean Marais: "Your name begins with a caress and ends with a whiplash. You wear feathers and furs which seem to be part of your body like the furs of beasts and the feathers of birds . . . There comes to us, in full sail, a frigate, a prow's figurehead, a Chinese fish, a lyre bird, unbelievable and marvelous...
...Arctic come in cycles of about 1,800 years. Before the last peak of cold, from which the Arctic is just emerging, Greenland was really green, and the sea between Greenland and Iceland was sufficiently free of ice to permit the tiny ships of the Vikings to sail without disaster. Dr. Frederiksen predicts that this condition will return, and that great areas of Siberia, Canada and Alaska, now almost uninhabitable, will be opened to agriculture. Population will move north, and the world's balance of power may be affected...
TRANSATLANTIC STEAMSHIP travel is setting alltime records. At the midyear mark liners have already carried 367,000 passengers (v. 352,000 at mid-1953). Bookings indicate some 930,000 will sail by year's end. Air travel is also up about...