Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...astonishment of Syrians at the field, out stepped Egypt's Strongman Gamal Abdel Nasser, new President of the United Arab Republic. Nasser had found it wise to come unexpected and in secret, lest the Israelis be tempted to have a shot at his plane as it crossed the Mediterranean from Egypt to Syria. Syria's ex-President Shukri el Kuwatly, awakened and told of the arrival, was so taken by surprise that he was still unshaven and in his dressing gown when he hurried downstairs to embrace his new boss...
...blueprinted, the plan calls for at least ten subs, and perhaps 20, stationed at points in the Atlantic, Arctic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. Without surfacing, a sub crew could launch sixteen 28,500-lb. missiles up through the water and into the sky within 15 minutes. And moments after launching, the sub could be well on its escape route, beyond any known Russian sub-finding capability. With the minimum ten subs on station, the U.S. Navy would be sitting within striking distance of 95% of the more populated Communist cities...
...down and evicted their staffs. Bourguiba appeared to be adamant in his insistence that France must evacuate not only the dozen or so minor French garrisons scattered throughout Tunisia but also four airstrips and the vast naval complex of Bizerte, which is the French navy's most important Mediterranean base after Toulon...
Four years ago, the German Jews in the red-roofed little settlement called Shavei Zion, on the rocky Mediterranean coast between Acre and Lebanon, decided to build a coastal road to link their village with other communities. A bulldozer was at work slicing away the sand dunes when one day its driver noticed that he was grazing what seemed to be scorched pavement with jewel-encrusted slabs. Archaeologist Moshe Prausnitz, British-trained senior inspector of Israel's Department of Antiquities, arrived on the scene, found a loose layer of burned mosaic floor, and under that two layers of superb...
...drama. They are well fused, charged with suspense and athrob with elemental passions. One of the best, The Little Photographer, tells a brooding crime story about a beautiful marquise who dallies in the bracken with an impoverished young photographer, then shoves him off a cliff to a Mediterranean grave. In the televersion, retitled The Violent Heart by Adapter Leslie Stevens, the little photographer (Ben Gazzara) died when he accidentally crashed through the balustrade of a Riviera ruin. This sapped the story of much of its mystery. But what Heart lost in plot, it made up for in atmosphere and pictorial...