Word: disembarkment
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...wildly disparate group of people, traveling the Mediterranean on a cruise ship called Europa, disembark in Crete to explore a labyrinth advertised as the mythic one of the fabled Minotaur. There is a lady missionary, a male medium, an archaeologist, an artist, a young girl clerk, and a jolly middle-aged couple who won the trip as a prize in a newspaper competition. A landslide cuts them off from the outside world. Several of them die, a few manage to return to everyday life, and two of them are transported to a peculiar, bucolic, almost supernatural existence in a valley...
...fully loaded, v. 150,000 Ibs. for the largest piston-engine airliner now in use, making most present runways too short for safety, and the hot breath of jet-engine exhausts will melt many runway and taxi-strip surfaces. Moreover, since six jetliners arriving close together will disembark as many passengers as an ocean liner, the passenger, baggage and ticketing jams of today will pale beside tomorrow...
...Panmunjom to the Communists, who had set up eight large white tents and seven smaller ones to receive them. Among these there had been some disturbances-apparently a last attempt to throw mud on the U.N. A group of Chinese, most of them pitiful cripples, had momentarily refused to disembark from an LST at Pusan...
After a milk-run space trip to the planet Xyra (during which the rocket's passengers loll around in armchairs and hold hands to break the monotony), starry-eyed couples disembark to find a city of pink wigwams. This is where a really interesting and imaginative movie could have started--but the characters in this one just kiss and fade...
...swing through the South during the next week will be Barnaby's testing ground. Monday the Crimson will disembark in Charlottesville, North Carolina, to meet Davidson College, and the next day will take on North Carolina State. A jog north to Annapolis and from there to West Point will complete the vacation circuit...