Word: sailings
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Regarding the controversy between patriotic Spaniards and the Festival of Britain as to who was the first man to sail around the world [TIME, July 2]: Leonard Outhwaite, in Unrolling the Map, published in 1935, says that "the first individual known to history to have passed around the world was a treacherous East Indian slave" known as Malacca Henry. Magellan bought him when he was in the East with Almeida between 1504 and 1512 and took him back to Spain. Magellan made this voyage by traveling eastward from Portugal. When he made his great voyage he sailed westward, taking Malacca...
Escorted to the ship by the dynamic Secretary himself, a batch of 75 Communist guerrillas, who had surrendered or been captured in the hills of Luzon, set sail with their families for sparsely populated Mindanao, where they would farm their own land. At first, the Huks who had volunteered for Magsaysay's resettlement program were doubtful. Some half suspected they were walking into a trap. Six days later their doubts vanished when government trucks carried them into a vast resettlement farm at Kapatagan, and they found rows of neat, new houses and 16,000 acres of fertile land waiting...
...majority in Parliament, Canada's Liberal government can quickly smother discussion of any embarrassing subject. That seemed to be the Liberal strategy last week when the Tory opposition again raised the question of the Ming Sung Industrial Co. Flying the Canadian flag, Ming Sung's five ships sail regularly from Hong Kong and Macao to Communist China, despite Canada's support of the United Nations' strategic embargo against the Chinese Reds...
...roundabout way, word came to London from Spain that the Festival of Britain's description of Sir Francis Drake as "the first man to sail 'round the world" just wasn't so. Drake set sail in 1577, patriotic Spaniards pointed out, and Portugal's Ferdinand Magellan started in 1519. Though Magellan was killed (on Mactan Island) before going full circle, his crew completed the trip...
Scrap-happy "A.P." early decided what his own role in the House should be. He would sail against the prevailing windbags. For 14 years, while party bigwigs huffed & puffed about Munich and the dollar gap, Member Herbert concentrated on unpretentious but warmly human legislation. Items: more lenient divorce laws, Sunday theater, uniform pub hours. It was not always easy. Introducing a bill could become an endurance test. He more than once "bumped," i.e., bobbed up & down, for four and five hours before he finally caught the Speaker...