Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because he is more expert on steam locomotives, Charles asked: "Is there a man in front?" At Portsmouth, the royal party boarded the new 413-ft. royal yacht Britannia (cost: $6,000,000). After tea, the Queen Mother and Margaret went ashore, and the Britannia set course for the Mediterranean, with the children beaming at the rail while bagpipes skirled on the pier. On May 1 the Britannia is due at the Libyan port of Tobruk. There, Prince Charlie and Princess Anne will rendezvous with their globe-girdling parents, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh...
...Prussian rigor of Von Rundstedt, or the inventive flair of a Guderian; yet he fashioned a career almost as brilliant as theirs. At war's start he commanded a single air fleet in Poland, later bossed all German air forces in North Africa, took charge of the Mediterranean theater in the slow German retreat up the boot of Italy, and ended the war as commander in chief in the West. As told in Kesselring's foot-slogging style, much of this story borders on a map-room briefing, but through it shines the quiet pride of a good...
Last week, after persuading 1,700 Californians to invest $1,320,000, Bayley, now 53 > finally opened his dream inn, one of the biggest motels (329 bedrooms) in the U.S. At his tile-roofed, Mediterranean-style Hacienda in Fresno, Calif, (pop. 91,669), Bayley has king-size (6 ft. 8 in.) beds, individual room air conditioning. A $1,000,000 "activities center" houses a coffee shop, restaurant, banquet rooms, two bars. One of the Hacienda's two swimming pools has a glass wall so that patrons in a basement bar get an underwater view of the swimmers...
Died. Sir Nelson King Johnson, 62, retired director of Britain's Meteorological Office, who during World War II directed weather forecasting for every major Allied landing in Europe and the Mediterranean from North Africa (1942) to Normandy (1944); by his own hand; in London...
...troopship Empire Windrush, bearing British service men and their families home from imperial outposts in the Far and Middle East, was sailing through the Mediterranean at 7 a.m. Sunday when an explosion occurred in its boiler room. Four crew members working in the room were immediately killed and within a half hour the whole ship was aflame...