Word: colombo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...above, was crowded with tourists. Since 1957, the last year before jets went into transatlantic service, ships have experienced a worrisome 25% decline in passengers. But reservations are now running about 6% ahead of last year, and such luxury liners as the France, Rotterdam and Cristoforo Colombo are booked solidly through mid-September. For the first time in five years, the ship lines expect to break the 1,000,000-passenger mark...
Climaxing a two-year investigation, a commission of inquiry in Colombo accused 22 Ceylonese navy officers-the cream of the top naval leadership-of conspiring to smuggle a treasure-trove of contraband into the country. Chief among them is the former naval chief of staff, Rear Admiral Royce de Mel, 47. When he sailed grandly home from a 1960 goodwill cruise in Asian waters, the commission charged, the magazines of De Mel's flagship and an escorting frigate had been loaded with some $10,000 worth of bounty bought in duty-free ports. Main source was Singapore, where...
...second on the North Atlantic run (after Cunard), is working hard to make that dream a reality. Hit by the loss of 31 of its 37 vessels in World War II and the national tragedy of the Andrea Doria disaster in 1956, it came back by building the Cristojoro Colombo and the Leonardo da Vinci in the 19505, six months ago launched the Michelangelo, a 43,000-ton superliner for the North Atlantic run. Last week, to the crash of band music and the splash of spumante, Michelangelo's twin, Raffaello, slid down the ways at Trieste. When...
...accept a neutralist proposal for the settlement of India's Himalayan border dispute with Red China-provided that the Chinese also agree to the neutrals' plan in toto. Under the arrangement devised by the six nonaligned nations-Ghana, Egypt, Indonesia, Burma, Cambodia and Ceylon-at the Colombo Conference last December, the Chinese will be forced to withdraw 12½ miles from the present cease-fire line in the northwestern Himalayas. But the resultant demilitarized zone will still recognize China's pre-invasion claim to 14,000 sq. mi. of Indian territory in Ladakh...
...Premier Chou Enlai, and was even taken to see a relic of Buddha's tooth. Reason for the indulgent treatment was the set of proposals that Mrs. Bandaranaike brought to Peking as spokesman for the six nonaligned nations-Ghana, Egypt, Indonesia, Burma, Cambodia and Ceylon-who met in Colombo last month and took it upon themselves to arbitrate the bloody Himalayan border dispute between China and India. The neutrals' solution delighted the Chinese, for it set up a demilitarized zone along the Himalayan frontier and actually gave Red China more territory in India than it had occupied before...