Word: galleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fourth floor of a building-the TU-114 is around 40 ft. high when standing on the ground. Inside the hatch, cabin follows cabin: a crew compartment; a large compartment empty of everything but a few suitcases, food hampers and cases of soft drinks; a serving pantry, with a galley down a flight of steps on a lower level. Then come the first-class compartments, four of them, each completely private. In contrast with the rest of the plane, where fittings are as spartan as those on a troop carrier, the first-class section has wood paneling and curtains...
...Though the country's biggest dailies in Madrid and Barcelona are still subject to censorship, only 15 stories have been doctored by government officials since Fraga took over, and no foreign publications have been seized for political reasons.* In other cities, papers no longer are required to show galley proofs to the censors before going to press. One weekly is actually serialising the memoirs of Dolores Ibarruri, the fabled La Pasionaria of Civil War days, who is queen bee of Spain's exiled Communist Party; her very name until recently was taboo in the Spanish press...
...Most expensive boat is Stephens' 50-ft. twin-diesel yacht, which sleeps ten, has two heads and a shower, and an all-electric galley. Price...
...other Texas boatmen are never threatened by such violence. So enticing is marina living that they never leave the slip all weekend long, as they sun on the boat deck, swim off the stern, and cook in the galley. To add to their comfort. Lake Texoma port authorities have come up with a novel, congenial, and undemanding way of fishing: the "Fisharena." This is a huge building built out over the lake, with a circular hole cut into the floor so that 500 anglers can fish the waters below at one time. In true Texas style, the Fisharena is heated...
...beer. Armed with false courage and the recommendations of a cartoonist friend named Gerry Grosvenor, Ginger applies to the Montreal Tribune to become a Gentleman of the Press. But brrrr-tongued Managing Editor MacGregor, nicknamed Hitler by his staff, believes in starting everyone at the bottom, proofreading the galleys. On his night-shift "galley-slave" wages, Ginger cannot actually support his wife and teen-age daughter. To his disgust, Veronica gets a millinery job; to his shock, she leaves...