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Nearly 100,000 peasants brought up the procession's rear in such native costumes as few countries besides Jugoslavia can produce. Her peasants of Turkish blood still wear the fez now banned in Turkey. With them strode Bosnians in scarlet dress and Herzegovinian mountaineers carrying their rifles upside down in mourning. Montenegro sent her Jugoslavian Cossacks...
Farther south he went, through the Shenandoah Valley where the sun sank scarlet behind the blue hills, through North Carolina with its little towns and their false-front buildings on Main Street. Finally the young man and his Ford reached Charleston, S. C. where the harbor water lay flat and blue. The thing he liked most in Charleston was the German cruiser Emden which one day steamed into port, made fast to a wharf. Mornings he watched brisk German sailors in white gymnasium suits doing setting-up exercises on the warship's decks. Finally after a good long look...
Third Day. Biggest sensation of the race came just before dawn of the third day, when burly Lieutenant Scott and dapper Captain Black flew their scarlet Comet into Darwin. They had covered the last 300 miles over water on one motor, risked death landing on a field made soggy by the first rain in seven months. Said sandy-haired Lieutenant Scott: "We've had a devil of a trip." But they had flown 9,000 miles in two days, had broken the England-Australia record of 162 hr. in the unbelievable time of 52 hr. 33 min., were only...
Scott & Black, keeping up their sensational pace, flashed into Charleville, refueled, sped toward the finish where waiting thousands cheered their progress, reported over loudspeakers. With one motor dead, with only two hours sleep since leaving England, the Britons triumphantly set their scarlet torpedo down in Melbourne at 3:34 p. m. In 71 hr. 1 min. 3 sec.-just under three days-they had flown halfway around the world...
...should be." His hearers shouted: "Long live Jesus Christ, the King of Peace!" On a third bright spring morning 110,000 children, the girls in white frocks and veils, the boys in white dusters, marched down four wide avenues to the great cross. There at the four altars four scarlet-robed Cardinals celebrated mass. Well-drilled, the 110,000 moppets rose, genuflected and crossed themselves in unison. When the moment came to partake of the consecrated wafer, 300 priests and monks distributed it in the vast crowd. Impressed by this gigantic act of faith, Cardinal Pacelli exclaimed: "This is heaven...