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...French economic realism. After negotiations between government authorities and striking crewmen broke down, the French Line announced that it was canceling the liner's four remaining voyages, all of which were fully booked, and was pulling the ship out of service immediately. The decision left only the British Cunard Line and the Italian Line offering regular transatlantic service between Europe...
...think group travel with Cunard is just a trip on a ship," announces a promotional brochure for R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth 2, "we've got news for you." True, if unwittingly, to its word, the Cunard Line ("Great Ships of British Registry since 1840") came up last week with the non-ship-trip of all time. Little more than a day out of New York harbor on a scheduled seven-day Caribbean cruise, the self-billed Greatest Ship in the World lay dead in the water: a leaking fuel line had put all three boilers incurably out of commission...
...Waterloo. Singers Judy Abbott and Glenn Weston chanted as indefatigably as blackbirds on a spring morn. Bands and discotheques rocked away with Elizabethan abandon. And many young couples were seen to be popping below quite early, leading one ancient mariner to muse that the cruise might be fruitful beyond Cunard's calculations. The great drift-in's only real disaster, said New Bedford, Mass., Travel Agent Bob Penler, occurred "when...
...fettle. "Anyone can go on a cruise and say it was lovely and fun," said New Yorker Diane Holze. "But we were part of the news. We were making news and enjoying it." "Anyone," added one wag, "who claims it was a horror tale is guilty of a base cunard." Some passengers were talking of an annual reunion aboard the Q.E. 2-in New York harbor. Dr. George Lawrence vowed that his yacht club at Bayside, N.Y., would in future serve all veterans of the non-ship-trip a free memorial drink called the QEEE. It will consist of warm...
...Cunard, the memory will not be so pleasant. The cost of the leaking fuel line in mid-Caribbean-including fare refunds, the Sea Venture charter, salvage fees, jet fares, lay-up in a Bermuda drydock and canceled cruises-may even exceed a cool $2 million...