Word: mediterraneans
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...Tonkin Gulf to monitor movements of U.S. warplanes and warn their friends in Viet Nam of their approach. The U.S., on the other hand, routinely buzzes Russian cargo ships on the way to Viet Nam for a customs inspection of sorts, tracks Russian submarines in the Mediterranean and elsewhere until they pop to the surface. Last week, however, this sort of jockeying on the high seas reached the scraping point...
...recalled giving money to Irving Brown, of the American Federation of Labor, "to pay off his strong-arm squads in Mediterranean ports, so that American supplies could be unloaded against the opposition of Communist dock workers." Braden said that CIA funds also went to Victor Reuther, brother and assistant of President Walter Reuther of the United Automobile Workers, and to Jay Lovestone, of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, for the purpose of helping various anti-Communist unions abroad. His article is highly self-flattering and oversimplified, but most of his statements appear to be correct. A.F.L.-C.I.O...
Into the Water. It was at Monaco that Italy's world champion, Alberto Ascari, drove straight through a sea wall into the Mediterranean (luckily, he could swim); that Rudy Caracciola suffered the leg injury that left him a cripple for life; that Luigi Fagioli crashed and died. Last week 16 cars and drivers took the starter's flag, and only six finished the race. Among those who did not: Scotland's Jimmy Clark, the 1965 Grand Prix champion, who smashed into a retaining wall and walked away...
During its 13th century heyday as a Mediterranean trading power, Genoa came to be known as "La Superba" -which, since it can be taken to mean "the haughty," was not necessarily a compliment. Still, the appellation was particularly apt for Genoa's business men, a tightfisted, close-knit breed that ranked among the world's most con servative. Interested only in sure things, they earned a lasting distinction by re fusing to stake a local boy named Chris topher Columbus to a daring expedition...
...December, the 550-mile oil pipeline stretching from Kirkuk, Iraq, across 305 miles of Syria to the Mediterranean ports of Baniyas and Tripoli went as dry as the arid land through which it snakes. The reason: in a dispute with Western-owned, London-based Iraq Petroleum Co.* over transit and terminal fees, socialist Syria squelched the flow...