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Eight days earlier the fast and fancy three-year-old Andrea Doria- had departed her home port of Genoa and headed for Cannes, Naples and Gibraltar. Leaving the Rock, the 29,000-ton liner raced westward on her 101st Atlantic crossing. For Captain Piero Calamai and his crew it wa's; routine. For the businessmen, the priests and nuns returning from Rome, the Italian-Americans ending old-country visits, the immigrants bound for the golden shore, the crossing was an event...
...great shakes as a surface swimmer; but given a pair of rubber flippers, some goggles and an oxygen tank, he was at home in the murky depths. In 1942 when Italian divers were busily attaching lethal limpet mines to the bottoms of Royal Navy ships at anchor off Gibraltar, Buster Crabb was even busier at the far more dangerous job of removing them. Mustered out of the navy at war's end with the George Medal for heroism, Crabb returned to civilian life as a salesman...
Bearded poet and ex-member of the class of '58, Peter Heliczer leaped from the liner "Roman" last week as it sailed between Gibraltar and Barcelona. "It was merely a poetic action," Heliczer said after ship's officers had hauled him aboard. On arrival in Italy he commented "I'm not at all fed up with life. I'm going to Rome and expect to have a very good time...
...torn 1943, Winston Churchill sent a top-secret, high-priority order winging to one of his subordinates. It concerned a dwindling garrison at Gibraltar. Legend has long held that when the last of the famed Barbary apes leave Gibraltar, the British will soon follow. With the pack reduced to seven, Churchill was taking no chances. A troop transport was dispatched to North Africa to get more apes...
Winston, mannerly and conscientious, was never late to meals. So when he failed to answer mess call one day last month, a search party was organized to comb the rugged heights of the Rock. They searched every crevice and called the ape loudly by name. No answer. Last week Gibraltar officialdom issued a sad bulletin: "Rock ape Winston has been missing since ninth December and must now be presumed dead. He is, accordingly, struck off the strength of the fortress from that date...