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...troopship Empire Windrush, bearing British service men and their families home from imperial outposts in the Far and Middle East, was sailing through the Mediterranean at 7 a.m. Sunday when an explosion occurred in its boiler room. Four crew members working in the room were immediately killed and within a half hour the whole ship was aflame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Albion Says Sea Rescue Tribute to British | 3/30/1954 | See Source »

...through blue-green waters off the Bahamas, these submarine spearmen are demonstrating one of the fastest growing of modern sports. Since the end of World War II, the number of spearfishing addicts in the U.S. alone has grown to almost 1,000,000. The sport has spread, from the Mediterranean, where it started, as far south as Latin America and the coral shoals of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Alone, in pairs, or as members of spearfishing clubs (there are close to 100 in the U.S. today), skin divers take goggle-eyed aim at everything with fins. Last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: SPEARFISHING | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...next decade the Donald Merretts, or the Ronald Chesneys as they liked to call themselves, lived high, wide & handsome, spending most of their time touring the Mediterranean in a luxury yacht, the Armentières. They were often joined in their cruising by Mrs. Chesney's mother, who called herself "Lady" Mary Menzies. When Donald's fondness for gay company and Isobel's fondness for gin at last drove them apart in 1937, Lady Mary and her daughter went back to London, bought a large house in Ealing, and opened a boardinghouse for genteel elderly ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Not Proven | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

Aristotle Socrates Onassis, 48, the man who bought Monte Carlo Casino last year to get some office space on the shores of the Mediterranean (TIME, Jan. 19, 1953), hurried back to the U.S. from France "to clear my name." He is under indictment with eight others on the charge of defrauding the U.S. Government by buying surplus tankers through U.S. front corporations. This did not cramp his style. Last week he announced that with the approval of King Saud he had formed a new company to operate some 25 ships transporting about 10% of Saudi Arabia's oil exports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: Biggest Tanker | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

Unfettered by American protests, Spain insists that modern armaments have made British fortifications on the bastion useless. Yet NATO experts regard the underground defenses of the Rock as secure as man can devise, and consider Gibraltar a vital point in the regulation of trade and supply routes to the Mediterranean. Solely on the basis of defense policy, the British have good reason to keep a tight grip on Gibraltar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rock of Ages | 2/5/1954 | See Source »

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