Word: mediterraneans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gibraltarians are a hardy and tough-minded race whose blood lines stretch to every Mediterranean port from Genoa and Malta to Athens and Alexandria; many, like Molly Bloom herself, are descended from Spanish mothers and British soldier fathers. Though Spanish is the common tongue and the Gibraltarian palate approves fiery paella and wine, the citizens want no part of Spain's political system or sovereignty. Instead the elected members of the Legislative Council, led by Chief Member Sir Joshua Hassan, want full internal self-government in a free association with Britain. And they want Britain finally to take countermeasures...
...with an imposing expanse of bald scalp, Katzenbach is a son of a onetime New Jersey attorney general. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, was at Princeton when World War II broke out. As an Air Force navigator, he was shot down over the Mediterranean, captured, twice escaped from Italian prison camps, finally spent 20 months in a German prison camp. There, he got the Red Cross to send him the textbooks that he would need for his junior and senior years at Princeton. After his release, Katzenbach returned to Princeton, wrote a thesis and passed both his junior and senior...
This renascence in church architecture was chronicled by Princeton-educated Architect G. E. Kidder Smith, 51, who spent the past five successive summers touring Europe. To write his recent book, The New Churches of Europe, he visited nearly 400 churches from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean, picked 60 to illustrate...
...million natural-gas pipeline from the Dutch border to Bavaria. France's third petroleum products pipeline between Le Havre and Paris is nearing completion, and three similar lines are planned between other French cities. Plans are even being made to lay pipelines across the floor of the Mediterranean to carry natural gas from fields in Algeria directly into the European network...
...Mediterranean Holiday. A camel fight in Turkey, the Grand Prix auto race at Monaco, the jet pace of life aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Shangri-La-there are some snappy stretches in this Cinerama travelogue, but there are plenty of languid interludes too. The film's ports of call are those of The Flying Clipper, a barkentine of the Swedish Merchant Marine manned by 20 student cadets on a Mediterranean cruise out of Goteborg. Climbing the pyramids, throwing snowballs in Lebanon or striding through the courtyards of Hagia Sophia, the boys appear to consider shore leave a time...