Word: sailings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last they set sail for home. On the way, Cinqé quarreled with the missionaries, the other Africans grew restive. At Sierra Leone, when they saw many of their countrymen, they flung off their clothes to show their tribal tattoos. The missionaries were aghast. Worse yet, some of the Africans deserted the mission, hit out for home. Cinqué went with them...
...irregular. A whole series of recent moves by the governments of the U.S., Great Britain, France, Greece and other countries practically prohibit their ships from trading with Communist China. Just last week, after long negotiations with the U.S., the Greek government decreed that Greek-flag ships will not sail to Communist Chinese ports...
...week's end Tito, with a broad smile, a set of English books and two expensive English setters, set sail for home. "All that we hoped for was attained," said he. Replied Anthony Eden, with a goodbye wave: "It has all gone very well...
...Janeiro, winding up a 13-day, 1,200-mile sail, the 46½-ft. yawl White Mist, owned and skippered by G. W. Blunt White of Mystic, Conn., crossed the finish line first in the third annual sailing race from Buenos Aires, to win the South Atlantic Blue Ribbon. On a corrected-time, i.e., handicap, basis, two smaller Brazilian yachts, Cairu and Mistral, placed one-two ahead of White Mist...
...fitted out a 23-ft. Bermuda-rigged sloop, Felicity Ann, with a 5-h.p. diesel engine, a radio receiving set, pressure kerosene stove, sextant, compass and chronometer. In May she set sail from Plymouth Harbor. Plagued by storms, she was forced to land in Brittany, Spain, Gibraltar, Casablanca. From Casablanca, she headed for the Canary Islands, was overdue 18 days and given up for lost before she finally made Las Palmas in the Canaries. Last week, 65 days later-and eight months after she started-Ann dropped anchor at Portsmouth, Dominica...