Word: maria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing quite like it had ever happened in the annals of the sea. The 20,906-ton Portuguese liner Santa Maria steamed in circles off the Brazilian seaport of Recife. Following in its wake were three U.S. destroyers and a nuclear submarine. A flotilla of fishing boats and launches jammed with reporters and photographers rose and fell on the choppy waves. From a plane overhead, a dashing French newsman parachuted to land on the Santa Maria's deck. He missed and was hauled from the briny deep by the crew of the U.S.S. Damato...
...Overboard. Revolutionist Henrique Galváo, 65, who had seized the Santa Maria twelve days before and some 2,800 miles away in the name of the Portuguese Liberation junta, refused to dock at Recife until he was assured of supplies, fuel, and permission to sail off again. U.S. Rear Admiral Allen E. Smith Jr. boarded the Santa Maria to discuss the fate of the 42 U.S. passengers, was met by Galváo wearing a black beret, a khaki uniform with shoulder boards, and an armband in the green and red of Portugal's flag. Swashbuckling Galv...
When Brazilian representatives finally came out from Recife, Galváo's mind was made up for him. The long-patient 607 passengers on the Santa Maria shouted that they had had enough of pointless wandering, short rations, and the sweltering discomfort caused by the breakdown of the ship's air conditioning. The docile 360-man crew - only five of whom had deserted to the rebels-grew mutinous at the thought of putting to sea again under Galváo. During the scuffling argument, someone was pushed through a glass door in the lounge. Three crew members jumped...
...tiny rock island of Fernando de Noronha lay only a few hundred miles to the south. While the island belongs to Brazil, it has been leased to the U.S. as a missile-tracking station, and its 1,000 residents include U.S. civilian technicians and troops. Should the Santa Maria land her 580 passengers there, Captain Henrique Galvão might possibly sail away again before the U.S. and Brazil can untangle the legal complexities of the situation...
...Hollywood child in the 1940s, she seemed surrounded mostly by chauffeurs, governesses and magicians who performed at birthday parties. A list of her classmates at the Brentwood Town and Country School read like a second-generation all-star cast: Lady* Jayne Seymour (Henry) Fonda, Tarquin (Laurence) Olivier, Maria (Gary) Cooper, Jenny Ann (Ingrid Bergman) Lindstrom. Her own parents were Actress Margaret Sullavan and Producer Leland Hayward. Last week, with most of the class doing post-graduate work†,Brooke Hayward, 23, made her TV debut on the U.S. Steel Hour, walking prettily through a preposterous play about a convict...