Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once the bane of streetwalkers and their patrons, Phthirus pubis, or the crab louse, is exhibiting upward mobility. As sexual barriers tumble, the tenacious parasites are infesting more and more middle-class youngsters. One reason, says Boston Dermatologist A. Bernard Ackerman in the New England Journal of Medicine, is that the bugs are making the scene at hippie love-ins. And it is only a short hop from the crash pad to the college crowd...
Fourteen years ago, Munir Abu-Haidar founded Trans-Mediterranean Airways as a creaky charter service linking Beirut with neighboring wastelands where oil was being scouted. Today the line flies not only to England and the European Continent, but also to Bombay, Karachi, Tokyo and Taipei. Last year its planes logged 34 million ton-miles, 41% more than the previous year. Last week Abu-Haidar was negotiating for the lease of two 707 jets, with which he hopes to increase his ton-mileage to 50 million...
...that by arranging to be fired in friendly fashion. With $600 in severance pay, he flew to London with a letter of intent from Aramco to use his nonexistent air-charter service. With that credential, he arranged the lease of an aging four-engine York, the transport version of England's Lancaster bomber of World War II. Operating out of a one-room office in Beirut, Abu-Haidar was soon getting charter business not only from Aramco but from other oil companies as well. He leased three additional Yorks, manned them with former R.A.F. flyers who knew the region...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Philip Vian, 73, British naval hero, whose rescue of 300 seamen from the German prison ship Altmark in February 1940 was one of the few things Britons could cheer about that year; of a heart attack; in Newbury, England. After taking the destroyer Cossack into a Norwegian fiord at night, Vian put her alongside the Altmark, then led his men aboard, crying "The navy is here...
...financier's wife is played by a sleek, sweet dream from England named Jacqueline Bisset. Her screen debut in the part originally scheduled for Mia Farrow-before she walked out on the movie and on Sinatra-is one of The Detective's redeeming features. Otherwise, this police epic peters out in aimless diffusion and in some of the most absurd juxtapositions of Manhattan and California location shots ever seen...