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...with mistresses and caused 1,870 monuments to himself to be raised in his capital alone. Last week a onetime Canadian corvette, now called the Presidente Trujillo, lay in Ciudad Trujillo harbor; it was being fitted out with extra new cabins. Dominicans whispered that, elections over, the Benefactor would sail away for France and an operation for an old ailment...
...history," said Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once, "before I read it." He played games amid relics of the Roman, Saxon and Norman conquests; his father was vicar of a church built by the medieval Minster monks. As a boy he watched British seapower-in full sail-pass through the Channel. He prepped at 1,200-year-old Sherborne School, which claims Alfred the Great as a pupil...
...fashioned, unupholstered, narrow booths. But John Cocoris, immaculate, white-haired, and clear-eyed, a prominent Bostonian, member of countless committees, sometimes called "the King of the Greeks," did not make his fortune by accident. He knows that the Athens without its atmosphere would be like a ship without a sail...
...Tiki has a bamboo deck and a small bamboo cabin. Two masts support a primitive square sail. Modern conveniences are iron rations, U.S. Army sun-cream, anti-exposure suits. A radio will send daily weather reports to the U.S. Weather Bureau...
Last week, the balsa was almost ready to sail. Named the Kon-Tiki after a Peruvian god, she is 40 ft. long, 18 ft. wide, built of buoyant balsa wood logs cut in the jungles of Ecuador. There is no metal in her; all parts are lashed together with ropes, as the ancient Peruvians...