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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...
...idled in the stream while the larger (44,356 tons) lie de France swung from her pier down the Hudson. Then in file the two ships moved past Manhattan's towers, out through the Narrows into the open sea. By 11 p.m. Stockholm, lie de France and Andrea Doria were all churning through the busy, often angry water south of Nantucket, known as "the Times Square of the North Atlantic...