Word: doria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...collision at sea between Andrea Doria and Stockholm directly involved some 2,000 people, but the details of how and why it happened were secrets known only to a handful of officers aboard both ships. Last week both sides finally told their stories-stories that differed so wildly on basic facts that they raised more questions than they answered...
...swift, accurate camera has superceded such labored reconstructions, as photographs of the Andrea Doria disaster show...
...obituary to its growing list of assignments for next-day's paper. By the time the story was buttoned up, the Times had 20,000 words spread across seven pages. Almost its entire front page was devoted to the shipwreck, with three pictures of the sinking Andrea Doria and the wounded Stockholm. For the lead, the Times called on Pulitzer-Prizewinner Meyer Berger, who had sat at his desk all day stitching together fragments from Times reporters, wire copy and the ship lines. His story spread across four columns, and in his clear, quiet prose, Berger wrote the most...
...Radar of these wave lengths is also used by shipboard radars designed to penetrate fog, was the type installed on the Andrea Doria and the Stockholm...
...Mexico City, 1942-46; Madrid since 1951). who in 1949 scored a world newsbeat on the Vatican archaeologists' claim to have found St. Peter's tomb beneath the cathedral's high altar in Rome; in the collision-sinking of the Italian liner Andrea Doria, off Nantucket (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...