Word: freighter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Continental Breakfast. Escorted by tough riot police of Beirut's red-bereted "Squad 16," the Americans boarded Pan American and Middle East Airlines charter jets, soon were winging for Rome, Athens, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Ankara, and Nicosia on Cyprus. Others made it aboard the American Export Isbrandtsen freighter Exilona for a leisurely, sun-drenched cruise to the Cypriot port of Famagusta...
...hatred of the press. Lindbergh plainly felt that the merciless mob of newspapermen descending on his Hopewell, N.J., farmhouse had scared the kidnapers out of their wits and perhaps panicked them into killing his son. After the long ordeal of the trial, he secretly loaded his family on a freighter and fled to England, where they settled on the estate of Author-Critic Harold Nicolson...
...time, as he has done so often, MacDonald takes off from an actual, contemporary crime. The Last One Left goes back to the 1961 wreck of a 60-ft. ketch that burned and sank off the Bahamas, apparently with only one survivor, Skipper Julian Harvey. Three days later, a freighter picked up another survivor, an eleven-year-old girl, Terry Jo Duperrault. Harvey promptly killed himself-even before the child reported how the debt-burdened skipper had murdered her family and his own wife in a plot to collect $20,000 in insurance...
Last year these yards turned out no fewer than 175 ships, totaling about 250,000 tons. In the final week of 1966, Warnemünde's Warnow yards - East Germany's largest-delivered a 12,300-ton freighter to the U.S.S.R., along with the 150th of a series of 10,000-ton freighters to East Germany's own state-controlled shipping company, VEB (for Volkseigener Betrieb) Deutsche Seereederei (The People's Own German Shipping Enterprise). The Wismar yards launched a 20,000-ton Russian passenger ship, the Shota Rustaveli, and Rostock's Neptune yards sent...
...next afternoon, Hale bobbed about helplessly, suffering such excruciating pain from the cold that "I hoped I would die." Though he was unaware of it, nobody knew of his plight; the Morrell had not even sent off an SOS. Not until 34 hours after she sank, when another freighter came upon the floating corpse of a seaman wearing a Morrell life jacket, was a search launched. Two hours later, a Coast Guard helicopter sighted Kale's raft, and divers in rubber suits hoisted him and his three dead mates aboard. In all, a score of bodies were recovered...