Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will take a 1,000-mile step across the Mediterranean from North Africa to bring its air bases nearer Russia. By arrangement with the British, the U.S. Air Force will take over the old R.A.F. airstrip at Tymbou, in the colony of Cyprus, a few miles southeast of Nicosia, the island's capital. A 3,000-man labor force will be recruited to rebuild the base for use by U.S. bombers, which will be only 600 miles from Russia's Black Seaports, less than 1,000 miles from Baku oil, Donbas coal and Dnepropetrovsk power...
...I.P.C. had plenty of oil, capital and cooks (too many). But its trouble was not over. Its fields are smack in the middle of nowhere, and the two pipelines to the Mediterranean were greatly inadequate. I.P.C. began building new lines. One, through Palestine, was stopped by the Arab-Israeli war, and has never been completed. Another, through Lebanon, was finished but quickly proved too small. A third, through Syria, ran afoul of Syrian government scheming...
...compulsions as a collector (TIME, Feb. 25). Trail Driving Days, by Dee Brown and Martin F. Schmitt. A first-class roundup of cow-country legends, thickly illustrated (TIME, Feb. 18). The Duke of Gallodoro, by Aubrey Menen. Light sardonics about a reprobate Englishman, his sleepy Italian town, and the Mediterranean way of life (TIME...
...Duke of Gallodoro, by Aubrey Menen. Light sardonics about a reprobate Englishman, his sleepy Italian town, and the Mediterranean way of life (TIME...
...place is Gallodoro, a sunny Italian town living on glorious memories and bundles from America. Its inhabitants take a dim view of work and punctuality. Two bells toll the passing hour, but the noisy gabble makes it almost impossible to tell the time. Snoozing and boozing by the Mediterranean, the happy people of Gallodoro do not care what time it is. They are more curious about the town's liveliest legend, the 14th Duke of Gallodoro...