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ture of voyaging canoes across the Pacific. This is a cultural project for us. It has a lot of spiritual meaning."
• The three-year tour -- roughly south and west from Hawaii past Australia, around the Cape of Good Hope, to the Americas, and back via the Panama Canal -- will make the Hokulea's watershed first voyage in 1976 look like a light jog.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Thursday, May 22, the 142nd day of 2014. There are 223 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On May 22, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, speaking at the University of Michigan, outlined the goals of his "Great Society," saying that it "rests on abundance and liberty for all" and "demands an end to poverty and racial injustice."
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• On this date:
• In 1761, the first American life insurance policy was issued in Philadelphia to a Rev. Francis Allison, whose premium was six pounds per year.
• In 1860, the United States and Japan exchanged ratifications of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce during a ceremony in Washington.
• In 1913, the American Cancer Society was founded in New York under its original name, the American Society for the Control of Cancer.
• In 1939, the foreign ministers of Germany and Italy, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Galeazzo Ciano, signed a "Pact of Steel" committing the two countries to a military alliance.
• In 1947, the Truman Doctrine was enacted as Congress appropriated military and economic aid for Greece and Turkey.
• In 1960, an earthquake of magnitude 9.5, the strongest ever measured, struck southern Chile, claiming some 1,655 lives.
• In 1963, Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis was attacked by right-wingers after delivering a speech in Thessaloniki; he died five days later. (The assassination inspired a book as well as the 1969 Costa-Gavras film "Z.")
• In 1968, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion, with 99 men aboard, (Continued on page 33)
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