Word: fogging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Patches of Fog." Shortly before 11 p.m. he picked up the pip of a ship on the bridge radarscope (he did not know it was Andrea Doria), about twelve miles off his port bow. Andrea Doria was at that point running a few miles south of the westbound lane of Track Charlie, an "informal" sea lane charted by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and generally followed by the big transatlantic liners of the U.S., Britain, France and Holland, but not necessarily by the Italians and the Swedes. Eastbound Stockholm was about 19½ miles north of the eastbound lane...
...less than two miles away. (At once the counsel for the Italian Line pounced: "What do you think obscured the lights?" Replied Carstens-Johannsen: "That's what I'm also wondering," and then he conceded that Andrea Doria might have been obscured by "patches of fog.") In any case, mindful of the captain's order not to pass within a mile of another ship, he ordered a sharp turn to starboard, thus pulling Stockholm about 22° to starboard...
...principal issues between Stockholm and Andrea Doria began to come clear. The Swedes insist that the night was clear; the Italians hold that it was "dark and foggy," hence, the captain should have been on the bridge, Stockholm should have cut her speed, posted extra watches and sounded fog warnings. The Swedes insist that the ships were steaming port-to-port, with ample room to pass; the Italians counter flatly that they were starboard-to-starboard, and that Stockholm veered to a collision course even as Carstens-Johannsen thought he was widening...
Deplorable Shot. When Govoni started back to the jungle with help, he could not find the couple. Soon fog and darkness closed in, and the searchers gave up for the night. Next day, parties of 4,000 civil guards, police, soldiers and Boy Scouts beat the bushes until they found Harrison and Miss Courtney, both exhausted after a sleepless night and suffering from exposure. While they recovered in a Ciudad Trujillo hospital, the police put Weldy in a cell until they could check his story that the shot was an accident...
Cheerleaders bounded and bounced in a political harlequinade, and Republican dignitaries lined up with grins wide enough for tooth inspection as the presidential Columbine III touched down at San Francisco's International Airport just ahead of the fog bank rolling over the San Bruno hills. Dwight Eisenhower, his face ruddy with returned strength and alight with expectation, stepped lightly from the big airplane, faced microphones and told why he had come a day ahead of schedule to the scene of the Republican National Convention. "I suddenly discovered this was too interesting a place to stay away from," he said...