Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slap of oars. Lifeboats arrived from Stockholm, where Captain Gunnar Nordenson had sealed his crumpled bow, found his vessel seaworthy, and turned to rescue. Andrea Dona's radio crackled as other ships reported positions. Fifteen miles away Captain Joseph Boyd had pushed his little (7,000 tons) freighter, Cape Ann, for a 55-minute run to Andrea Dona's side. The military transport, Private William H. Thomas, was 20 miles away. The destroyer escort Edward H. Allen, cruising off the coast in gunnery practice, was closing a 52-mile gap. And the old but agile lie de France...
...from the ship's infirmary down a gangway to waiting ambulances. On the fantail a weeping Andrea Doria officer called 100 men to a last muster. Commented lie de France's Captain de Beaudean: "Altogether, it was like being back in the war years." Ninety minutes later Cape Ann, no less a hero, docked at Andrea Doria's pier with 129 survivors. In Brooklyn Thomas arrived with 150-odd, Allen with...
...Aqaba, running through Israel. The big problem was Middle East oil, which supplies 70% of the European market, and accounts for half of the Suez Canal traffic. Perhaps the desert pipeline to the Mediterranean might be expanded. And new supertankers might make the long and costlier way around the Cape of Good Hope more practical (see BUSINESS...
...would not only seize the Suez Canal (see FOREIGN NEWS), but bar it to Western shipping, to bring pressure on Britain and the U.S. Some supertankers are now bypassing the Canal on the Middle East-California run. If all Europe-and U.S.-bound tankers are forced to round the Cape of Good Hope, more and bigger supertankers will be needed...
...short novel and, on the surface, tells simply the story of two white university students who are hitchhiking to Cape Town on their summer vacation. Their road leads through the Karroo, a desert plateau of Cape Province. Beside a dry river at the sun-blistered dorp of Mirredal, they put up for the night in a ruined boarding house. It is full of grotesque and expensive furniture; they are the only lodgers, and its sole occupants are a man, his wife and, of course, the usual African servants...