Word: dockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Negotiations will be held in the cream-colored Hotel du Pare, which was chosen mainly because its grounds can be easily closed off by the 1,000 French security police assigned to protect the delegations. The hotel faces the excursion dock in case the F.L.N. representatives-who refused to be quartered on French soil-wish to commute by boat from their Swiss hotels across the lake...
Fleeting Smile. Summoning the defendants to stand shoulder to shoulder in the glass-walled dock, the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Parker, in quiet, emotionless tones condemned them to a total of 95 years in prison. Lord Parker dealt first with the ''directing mind" of the ring, jowly Gordon Lonsdale, 38-who smiled fleetingly when the judge described him as "clearly a professional spy." Lonsdale's true identity is still unknown, but he is certainly a Russian and a Soviet intelligence agent. His claim to be a Canadian taken to Finland by his mother...
...winding up for a 100,000-man rally beneath the stern statue of Lord Nelson in Trafalgar Square. Last week the ban-the-bombers turned their attention to Holy Loch, a tiny inlet on Scotland's Firth of Clyde. The 18,500-ton tender Proteus was due to dock there and remain on permanent station to service the U.S. fleet of Polaris-bearing atomic submarines. More than 200 newsmen turned out expecting a lively demonstration...
...kind of bridge between reality and dreams, Hultberg exaggerates perspective. The eye no sooner lights upon some familiar surface-a deck, a dock, a piece of roof-than it is drawn through some sudden opening, whisked up a ladder or a plank, flipped into space. Occasionally a whole painting is made up of windows, each with a separate world behind it. The shadowy figures lurking here or there are merely spectators: ''They put the viewer into the picture...
...Viva Portugal! Viva Salazar!" roared the crowd of 80,000 jamming the dock area in Lisbon. Jet fighters of the Portuguese air force whined overhead, tugboats and pleasure craft blew their whistles as the 20,906-ton liner Santa Maria last week steamed majestically up the Tagus River, back in its home port and in Portuguese control after its twelve-day captivity by rebel Captain Henrique Galv...