Word: doria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first crowded out of the headlines by the sinking of Andrea Doria (see Disasters), the crisis picked up momentum by the minute. Lights burned late at State. the Treasury Department, the Pentagon. The British ordered drastic economic sanctions designed to bring Nasser down. Unofficially, Britain hoped the U.S. would not only follow suit, but would cut off further aid to Nasser and perhaps disrupt Egypt's cotton market by dumping U.S. surplus cotton abroad (a move that would also disrupt such cotton-growing friends as Mexico and Brazil). The French were talking of a military landing. All seemed...
...Voted unanimously to investigate the collision between the liners Andrea Doria and Stockholm...
...last night out, the Italian Liner Andrea Doria sliced through a gentle ocean, and an awesome wall of North Atlantic fog closed in around her. But the ship's mood as she neared the U.S. was fog-free and gay. A movie (Foxfire) was running in one of Andrea Doria's four theaters; in the plush, boat deck Belvedere lounge, dancers swayed to the rhythms of an eight-piece orchestra. Their last song: Arrivederci, Roma. In the cardrooms, bridge foursomes pondered hands. On deck late strollers tasted the mist and sniffed for land smells. Below, passageways were lined...
Eight days earlier the fast and fancy three-year-old Andrea Doria- had departed her home port of Genoa and headed for Cannes, Naples and Gibraltar. Leaving the Rock, the 29,000-ton liner raced westward on her 101st Atlantic crossing. For Captain Piero Calamai and his crew it wa's; routine. For the businessmen, the priests and nuns returning from Rome, the Italian-Americans ending old-country visits, the immigrants bound for the golden shore, the crossing was an event...
Last week in Genoa some 2,000 visitors passed through the austere Villa Doria, examining and occasionally touching 189 graceful and lustrous stringed instruments, including one cello, 16 violas, 171 violins. The oldest was a small, ornamented Gasparo da Salo, dated 1609; the most famous was Paganini's own powerful Guarneri del Gesu, given to him (by a wealthy Leghorn merchant) on the condition that nobody else would ever perform on it; the most prevalent were modern models patterned closely after Stradivari designs. Because of their popularity among wealthy foreign fiddlers, there were no Strads at all available...