Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Light for the Queen. Feline Mayfair smacked its lips in anticipation of revenge at last when it heard that Doug was trying to persuade his old Mediterranean Theater crony Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, to bring his wife round to The Boltons for "a jolly time." Surely, not even Fairbanks could bring that off. But last November the Queen accepted. The Fairbankses were in a state of jitters all day before the dinner. It was not eased when an unidentified voice, possibly a hoaxter, called to say that the power company was going to have to shut off their electricity that...
Buckingham Palace announced that some of the Queen's old heroes would have their place of due honor at the coronation: Viscount Cunningham, former First Sea Lord and hero of the Mediterranean, will carry St. Edward's crown into the Abbey; Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein will bear the royal standard; Viscount Portal, World War II Air Chief of Staff, will bear the scepter with the cross; and Earl Alexander of Tunis, Defense Minister, will carry the orb, a golden globe with jeweled cross, symbolic of the sovereignty of Christ...
...nearly 30 shipping companies* under five different flags, Onassis already has headquarters in Montevideo, branch offices in Paris, London, New York, Hamburg and Panama. But since much of his tanker business is bringing oil from the Middle East through the Mediterranean to Northern Europe, he thought he should have offices near the Mediterranean ports of Marseille and Genoa, where many of his ships are repaired. To Onassis, some empty buildings he had seen on a visit to Monaco looked ideal. A year ago, he approached Monaco's Societe des Bains de Mer et Cercle des Strangers (Sea Bathing Society...
...Crimson Pirate. Buccaneer Burt Lancaster and his cutthroat crew roam the Mediterranean in a merry travesty on pirate movies (TIME, Sept...
...Crimson Pirate. Buccaneer Burt Lancaster and his cutthroat crew roam the Mediterranean in a merry travesty on pirate movies (TIME, Sept...