Word: gibraltarism
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This time, Guinness plays the captain of a ferry steamer plying between Gibraltar and Morocco. A quite ordinary fellow to all appearances, he is what might be described as a commuting bigamist...
...Gibraltar side, the captain goes soberly afoot from his ship to a conventional middle-class cottage. There he is cozily greeted by wife No. i, a plain but devoted homebody (Celia Johnson) who puts out his pipe and porter, serves up his favorite dumplings, and answers dutifully to his call for "beddy-byes" at 10 p.m. Otherwise, as the captain explains, he would be "no use on the bridge...
...Tarifa, Spain, Channel Swimmer Florence Chadwick plunged into the Straits of Gibraltar, swam the eight miles to Africa in the record time of 5 hrs. 6 min. Her next target: the Bosporus...
What Next? At dawn on the third day, G.I.s donned their "flak jackets" and helmets again, moved down the scarred slopes from dozens of famous hills where U.N. soldiers had died: Heartbreak Ridge, Whitehorse Mountain, Christmas Hill, The Hook, Little Gibraltar. Somber and unsmiling, the men wondered what would happen to them next...
...that the demonstration be canceled, but his hosts insisted. Minutes later two Meteor Mark 8s collided during an acrobatic show and crashed, killing both pilots, while Tito looked on in horror. (On his way to England, four other Britons had been killed during a 60-plane "flyover" staged at Gibraltar.) Tito, visibly upset, asked the British to cancel the rest of the show. They refused. But before it was over, Tito walked off, and his hosts had to follow...