Word: mediterraneans
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...fated jet was Flight 4114, which left Benghazi on the regular run to Cairo. Flying along the Mediterranean coast, the plane turned south at El Alamein, then northeast at El Fayoum for the approach to Cairo. Inexplicably, Captain Bourges missed Cairo by a wide margin; the only reasonable explanation for his error was heavy cloud conditions over the area that afternoon that might have affected his navigational equipment...
Currently, Gilbert is combating illness, old age and dwindling celebrity in a Mediterranean villa that is decorated like an elaborate set from The Roaring Twenties. Soon after King's arrival, life begins to imitate artifice. There are decadent aristocrats, a mysterious mistress (Nadia Cassini), a vulturous ex-wife (Lizabeth Scott), and a professor from Berkeley (Al Lettieri) found dead in a bathtub-just like Diabolique-who pops up later as an assassin. And of course there are also the requisite bizarre coincidences, intimations of labyrinthine intrigues, and murders. It is all highly improbable, like one of Gilbert...
...clothes that she already had, glittered in a long-sleeved turquoise ballgown designed by Adele Simpson. Recovering from the flu, Tricia Nixon Cox, escorted by Husband Ed, wore a rose-red satin gown. Julie Nixon Eisenhower, whose husband sat out the week's events on duty in the Mediterranean, wore a long white satin dress and woollen fox-trimmed cape to match as she made her round of the evening galas...
...last the city commissioners unanimously defeated the ordinance and announced that the original names would indeed be retained. That, of course, does not help the property value of the streets any, but perhaps a referendum to legalize gambling in the Garden State will make Baltic and Mediterranean worth playing for with real money...
...certain aura of predictability surrounded events last week on the tiny (122 sq. mi.) Mediterranean island of Malta. Britain's quarterly payment of $8,325,000 to cover the cost of garrisoning 2,800 troops on the island had been refused by Maltese Prime Minister Dom Mintoff. The fiery Mintoff, in rebuffing the routine payment from the Bank of England, 1) demanded higher rent from Britain; 2) intimated that he would evict the troops unless he received it; 3) flew to Tripoli seeking support from Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi; and 4) tried to con other NATO nations that share...