Word: mediterraneans
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Cunard has ripped out the Edwardian trappings of two of its ships, installed bowling lanes and nightclubs and rechristened the ships Carmania and Franconia. Along its Mediterranean stops, the American Export Lines provides variety in entertainment by picking up Spanish flamenco dancers in one port, carrying them to the next, and then taking aboard another set of locals. The Italian Line hires hostesses-often some one who can claim a titled name-to help passengers get acquainted...
Died. Andrew Browne Cunningham, 80, Viscount of Hyndhope, a crusty, klaxon-voiced sea dog who as Britain's Mediterranean commander in chief in World War II sank the pride of the Italian navy at Taranto and Cape Matapan, blocking Rommel's supply route and turning Mussolini's vaunted Mare Nostrum into "Cunningham's Pond"; of a heart attack; in London...
Admiral Anderson has many Portuguese friends, made during numerous visits when he was commander of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean from 1959 to 1961. And Administration officials were pleased to point out that the U.S. is sending an admiral as envoy to a land whose seafaring tradition is still nourished by the long-ago exploits of Prince Henry the Navigator and Vasco da Gama. But even so, for George Anderson the new job is quite a comedown...
...semiannual NATO Council meeting, the U.S. and its allies had agreed on a new addition to NATO's alphabetical armory: IANF, meaning interallied nuclear force. A limited first step toward giving NATO its own nuclear deterrent. IANF now consists mainly of 180 British V-bombers and three Mediterranean-based U.S. Polaris submarines that the two nations will turn over to NATO command. While it also includes 60 French tactical bombers, for which the U.S. controls the nuclear warheads, the French government hinted that it might withdraw them if IANF were made to seem bigger and more powerful...
...world's loveliest scenery at Marshal Tito's villa on the Yugoslav island of Brioni. But the cables from Cairo carried word that Nasser's Arab unity scheme was in a state of collapse. Reluctantly, Egypt's leader boarded a plane and headed across the Mediterranean to deal with his troublemaking partners, the Syrians...