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...clashes, 150 rebels and 60 royal soldiers were killed. Held off on land, the Crown Prince commandeered smugglers' craft in Tangier harbor 175 miles awa)', hired a British-owned ferryboat, and landed troops at Alhucemas by sea. Commercial aircraft of Royal Air Maroc were pressed into service to transport supplies, despite the protests of the French pilots who were forced to fly them...
...little blue Fiat slipped into it. But that left the vacationing Sheik of Kuwait in an awkward fix: his three-car caravan (including one blue Cadillac, one black Cadillac) was only two-thirds afloat. No smalltime bey-decker, His Highness Sir Abdullah as Salim as Sabah quickly offered the ferryboat captain $16 to unload the latecomer and make room for the royal limousine. The Milanese tourist in the Fiat bid $32 to preserve the status quo. The Sheik bid $160. The Italian raised him $160, promised the captain $320. Chips cascading from his shoulders, Abdullah said...
Married. Amelia Eden, 25, niece of former British Prime Minister Anthony Eden; and Giovanni Borrelli, 30, $35-a-week engine-room mate on a ferryboat that runs between Naples and Ischia; in Ischia, Italy. Said the bride's mother: "I'm not worried about Amelia's happiness. I know she will be happy. What worries me is the plumbing...
...Rescue. Ships of all sorts and all nations converged on the scene. The Irish ferryboat, Naomh Eanna, put ashore 300 holiday excursionists at Galway and headed out into the Atlantic. A Canadian destroyer and an Irish corvette turned their prows to the disaster area. The Jules Verne radioed: "We now have aboard eleven bodies: seven women, two men, a little girl and a little...
...Captain's Paradise. Alec Guinness as a ferryboat captain who manages to have a wife (Celia Johnson and Yvonne de Carlo) in each port (TIME...