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...over its recession jitters and in a vacation mood, the total was not enough. The Caribe Hilton rented out its solarium, conference room and doctor's office. No-vacancy signs were up in the Virgin Islands, now linked to Puerto Rico by a 40-passenger hydrofoil speedboat. Barbados, easternmost of the Windward chain, bustled; Trinidad impatiently awaited the completion of a $9,500,000 Hilton hotel...
General Matthew B. Ridgway flew to Turkey to inspect the easternmost outpost of his NATO command. He conferred with the U.S. military mission in Ankara, inspected units of the tough, well-trained Turkish army, and journeyed to Turkey's mountain frontier with Russia. There, General Ridgway looked around with the help of a B.C. scope...
...Chancellor of Austria, was luncheon guest of honor at the Overseas Press Club. There he accepted a bouquet and a buss from nine-year-old Emmi Mattesich, all dressed up in her best Austrian costume. In a serious mood, Figl told reporters: "We in central Europe today are the easternmost outpost of the free world and we are determined to defend this bastion. To achieve this we must rely upon the moral and material help of the free world . . . until we are again in possession of all the natural resources of our country. It is not our fault that...
...Tiki was doing all right. Last week, the men on the big log raft (modeled after an ancient Peruvian balsa) sighted the first land they had seen since leaving Callao, Peru, three months and 4,100 miles ago (TIME, April 21). It was the island of Puka Puka, easternmost atoll of the Tuamotu archipelago. To the six Scandinavian scientists on the Kon-Tiki, the smudge of land was proof of their theory that ancient, pre-Inca Indians might have traveled across the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia on big, homemade rafts, carried by the south equatorial current. Sailing...
From the days when their forebears followed John Cabot to carve a rocky cornerstone for Britain's overseas empire, Newfoundlanders have been a hardy, God-fearing, independent people. Their neighbors in the Dominion of Canada have long reserved a place for them as the tenth and easternmost province, but the islanders have always elected to go their...