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During their Bermuda conference last March, the President and Macmillan informally agreed to future meetings; a Macmillan trip to Washington had since been tentatively planned for next February. The speedup, arranged through regular State Department-Foreign Office channels (the President did not directly speak to Macmillan by telephone), came only after Russian threats had placed the cold war on a new and urgent basis. Subjects on the Eisenhower-Macmillan agenda...
...subject of the Reina del Pacifico and her grounding off Bermuda: in referring to certain passengers' proceeding by alternative .routes to the United Kingdom, you stated [July 22] that the third-class passengers who asked for air passages were told that they could go ahead-at their own expense. This, we would mention, is a gross inaccuracy, as all passengers, first, cabin and third, were informed that alternative means of transportation would be secured for them if they so wished and that this would be entirely at the expense of this company. By far the greater percentage of passengers...
...gondolier straw hat, a cross between the U.S. male's straw boater (now enjoying a booming revival) and the Venetian gondolier's wide-brimmed hat. But fashion is as fickle on the beaches as in the salons of Paris. College girls spending their spring vacations in Bermuda and Nassau this year discovered the virtues of the man's straw hat, enthusiastically spread the fad through whole campuses-and delighted straw hat manufacturers. "We were tired of the big straw hats of last year," says one girl, "so we simply picked a smaller, lighter hat. It happened...
Bound for Spain and England with 566 passengers, the 17,872-ton British liner Reina del Pacifico headed out of Bermuda's Hamilton harbor through the narrow North Channel early one morning last week under command of Captain E. C. Hicks, making his first voyage as master. In 26 years the sturdy, Belfast-built Reina had made the trip hundreds of times. This time, six miles out, in the midst of colorful sea-fan gardens growing in coral that teems with blue angelfish, the Reina went aground on Devil's Reef...
Finally, 400 miles south of Bermuda, Boston gave up, wearily turned about and headed for Swampscott. Then he sprawled for three days on his bunk, too sick to set a course. "I heard the awesome sound of whale spouts in the fog. I felt that I was going up and down into nothing...