Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Hamlin's maiden voyage as a director at the Loeb is a roaring success. The play is a happy choice, the superb cast is rigorously trained--even to the near-uniformity of its brogue--and a monumental, yet graceful set is perfect in all its details, down to the last dusty bottle and patched quilt...
...delighted with your provocative story on new ships and sea travel [Feb. 16]. However, our liner the President Roosevelt, stated in the article as having already sailed, departs on her maiden voyage to the Orient in April...
...campaign, there was plenty of evidence to support him. In Uttar Pradesh, four people were shot dead in riots; in Kashmir, candidates opposed to the government claimed they were kidnaped by police. In Jaipur, where the Maharani of Jaipur was running against the Congress Party machine under her maiden name. Gayatri Devi, local politicos found another Gayatri Devi to run against her as an independent in order to split her vote. At a New Delhi rally, an onlooker hurled a shoe at a poet reciting verses onstage in praise of a Congress nominee; the shoe missed, but in the resultant...
...fireboats were spraying, and the French ambassador was waiting. Into New York harbor steamed the world's newest and longest ocean liner, France, her profile ennobled by huge ailerons protruding from two canted stacks.* On her maiden voyage, the France last week carried 1,600 French Line officials and paying customers, all of them grateful for a touch of dry land. The great ship had run into a storm that spoiled one day of the voyage as well as some dishes and dinners...
Pacific and round the world. The American President Lines' President Roosevelt, newly converted to an all-first-class cruise ship, made her maiden voyage (from San Francisco to Honolulu, Yokohama, Hong Kong, Manila and Kobe) last month. Canadian Pacific's Empress of Canada, on the Caribbean and Mediterranean routes, is another recent and successful addition to the cruise fleet. The Home Lines is building an unnamed 34,000-ton "Ship of Tomorrow" that will be ready in 1963 for summer and fall transatlantic service from Montreal and for winter-spring operation from New York to the Caribbean. Grace...