Word: cunard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steamed toward New York harbor last week with 711 passengers (capacity: 2,304), a message over the ship's radio instructed Captain Joseph E. Woolfenden to open a sealed envelope he had received before sailing from Southampton. Woolfenden was stunned by what he read. At that moment, the Cunard Steam-Ship Co. Ltd. was announcing in London that the world's two largest ocean liners would be retired-the Queen Elizabeth within 18 months, the older Queen Mary as early as next October...
...Queen, written with a waterproof pen by Rod Serling, describes how a daredevil gang headed by Frank Sinatra, Tony Franciosa and Virna Lisi salvages a sunken German U-boat and uses it to stage a high-seas holdup of the Queen Mary. Despite the acknowledged cooperation of Cunard lines and the U.S. Coast Guard, most of the action appears to take place in a studio tank. When they are not scraping off barnacles or scrapping about sex, the actors group themselves in front of sea-blue projections and admit quite openly that their plan is insane, although piracy, in Scenarist...
First off, Sir Basil has made Cunard more shipshape by reorganizing it into five divisions with young men at the top of each one. Last week he ended the old separation between seagoing men in Southampton and headquarters men in Liverpool by moving passenger headquarters to Southampton. He is planning package holiday tours, hopes to increase winter cruise bookings by "keeping the ships in the sun more than...
...venerable, 26-year-old Queen Elizabeth has been renovated at a cost of $4,200,000. Cunard is building an $80 million, 58,000-ton ship, known as the Q4. The Q4 is being built as a cruising hotel: instead of being segregated into classes, passengers will have the run of the ship, but will have the choice of different cabins and restau rants at different price ranges...
With the Q4, Cunard hopes to dump its old-tub, cold-mutton reputation and start filling as many cabins as the Italian and French lines fill on their slick new vessels. The Q4 will be commissioned in 1968, but, says Sir Basil, "Cunard line's passenger service must be paying its own way by that time...