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Preference for Sea. It was conceivably the longest day that Paul had ever spent. The pilgrimage began shortly after 5 in the morning-after midnight New York time-when Paul, with an entourage that included seven cardinals, a dozen other papal aides, and 60 newsmen and photographers, boarded a chartered Alitalia DC-8 at Rome's Fiumi-cmo Airport. On the nine-hour flight Paul slept only a little, played the considerate host. He left his isolated forward cabin twice to visit the newsmen, handed out commemorative medals,' amiably posed for pictures and answered some questions. "I know...
...longest hearing of its kind in British history, 19 barristers representing 14 parties recently spent 91 days battling over Fuld's will before Justice Sir Leslie George Scarman of the British High Court of Justice. The hearing wound up in July after running up costs of around $1,500,000. At that point, Mr. Justice Scarman reserved his decision and packed up for a two-month fishing holiday in the Outer Hebrides...
Except for Vietnam, the issue of Berkeley touched off the longest debate of the congress--five hours. The resolution that emerged gave virtually complete support to the Free Speech Movement, which organized the mas- sive demonstrations against allegedly unjust abridgements of political advocacy at the University of California at Berkeley last year...
Those operations may soon become considerably more complex: the Interstate Commerce Commission is now studying a proposed, long-pending merger that, if it approves, would stitch together the Burlington, the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific into the nation's longest railroad...
Subbookkeeper is the only English word that contains four successive pairs of letters. Triennially is one of the very few English words in which the odd and the even letters spell two complete words: tinily and renal. The longest English word that can be typed in the top letter line of a typewriter is-typewriter? The longest English word without an e in it is floccinaucinihilipilification (the action or habit of estimating things as worthless...