Word: cunard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dowager Queen Mary will be replaced in three years by a $64 million ship that is known so far as Hull No. 736. Already it has stirred curiosity and controversy. The Council of Industrial Design has worried aloud about whether the Cunard Line will make the ship's interior look smart enough, and last week Cunard felt obliged to announce that the Queen will "reflect all that is best in British design...
...estimated $140 million; its six passenger ships and 34 freighters carry 41% of all Israel's imports and 26% of its exports. This year ZIM plans to add another 19 cargo ships, which will make it one of the world's dozen largest lines, comparing respectably with Cunard (whose gross tonnage is actually smaller than ZIM's) and U.S. Lines...
...Dallas' Theater Center group is housed in a theater designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, which looks as if it had been chopped out of a Cunard liner. The Theater Center was opened in 1959. Its director is Paul Baker, once head of the widely acclaimed drama department at Baylor University. Among this season's productions are two new plays and such varied old ones as Robinson Jeffers' poetic drama Medea and Cole Porter's frolic...
...airlines this year will carry at least 21 times that many passengers, but the transatlantic ship lines have improved their own position by concentrating on what the speedy jets cannot offer. Says Sir John Brocklebank, chairman of Britain's Cunard Steamship Co.: "With jet travel, there is no need for an Atlantic ferry." Instead, the lines sell the idea of leisure, roominess, food, fun and salt spray...
...Cunard has ripped out the Edwardian trappings of two of its ships, installed bowling lanes and nightclubs and rechristened the ships Carmania and Franconia. Along its Mediterranean stops, the American Export Lines provides variety in entertainment by picking up Spanish flamenco dancers in one port, carrying them to the next, and then taking aboard another set of locals. The Italian Line hires hostesses-often some one who can claim a titled name-to help passengers get acquainted...