Word: lifeboats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the crews have a grandstand view of the military fireworks, their biggest enemy is boredom. To while away the time, they take part in lifeboat races and play soccer on the broad deck of the largest ship, the British bulk carrier Jnvercargill. They attend church services on the West German motorship Nordwind and watch movies on the Bulgarian freighter Vasil Levsky. The Polish freighter Djakarta even prints stamps for the marooned vessels. Egyptian postal authorities graciously allow the stamps to be used as legal postage; they have become collector's items. Immense amounts of beer are consumed...
...ship does sink, don't worry about old Gore. He'll be the dandy in the stern of the lifeboat, carefully keeping his Italian shoes above the bilge water, still addressing his beautifully shaped, never-flagging thoughts to no one in particular while the rest of the survivors bail. No matter. He is useful, even if he keeps half the passengers alive by sheer irritation. No sinking ship would be complete without...
...Manhattan. Beautiful and honey-blonde, the daughter of a wealthy Alabama Congressman, Tallulah could count only three genuine hits in a career that encompassed literally scores of plays and movies: Broadway's The Little Foxes (1939) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1942) and Hollywood's Lifeboat (1944). Yet even to the flops she brought the kind of fierce power and impish delight that captivated friend and foe alike. Tennessee Williams called her a cross between a tiger and a moth, and her performance offstage was the true measure of the actress. Lavish beyond redemption, garrulous beyond recall...
...Liberal government denies that, maintains that without such investment Australia would be like Mexico, Bolivia, Indonesia or the Congo, allowing stubborn national pride to strangle national interests. Still, the Liberals would like foreign investors to be less stubborn too. Gorton, who often takes an oar in one of the lifeboat teams that Aussies love, would like to see the same sort of teamwork in the economy. David Fairbairn, Minister for National Development, notes that many large companies, "particularly in oil and motor vehicles, have been established here for many years, making substantial profits from Australia's political stability...
...Into the Lifeboat. Some argue that the Pope's grudging approval of only one medically inadequate means of controlling birth-the rhythm method-is inconsistent with his acknowledgment that sex is important as an expression of a loving marital relationship. Forcing a man and wife to practice rhythm, says Gunther Mack, ecumenical affairs editor of a German Protestant weekly Sonntags-blat, is "like sending a man on a sinking ship to a lifeboat full of holes...