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...lockless, sea-level canal, blasted by buried atomic devices, may be feasible. It certainly is desirable for commercial and military reasons. Neither the larger merchant and passenger ships, nor the U.S. Navy's nuclear carriers will fit through the Panama Canal. Washington could offer to relinquish its sovereignty over the Canal Zone at the completion of a new canal or to renegotiate the 1903 Panama Canal Treaty, should a new canal not be operating within some agreed number of years--perhaps ten. This formula would permit Panama to say that it had won either renogotiation or the Canal itself...
Founded by two Zionist groups, the tiny line - named ZIM from a contraction of two Hebrew words meaning merchant marine-ran the British blockade with such doughty ships as the Exodus, the inspiration of the novel by Leon Uris. Today ZIM sails on as a firm worth an estimated $140 million; its six passenger ships and 34 freighters carry 41% of all Israel's imports and 26% of its exports. This year ZIM plans to add another 19 cargo ships, which will make it one of the world's dozen largest lines, comparing respectably with Cunard (whose gross...
...desire for freedom apparently suffice to explain the boys' ambitions. But finally Stavros realizes that to reach America he has no choice but to defile himself. He does not hesitate. Angling for a dowry to buy a steamship ticket, Stavros consents to marry the daughter of a wealthy rug merchant, whose bourgeois contentment repels him. But he has begun to concoct American-sounding rationalizations for his new tactics: "You have to look out for yourself in this world. You can't afford to be human." Soon Stavros abandons his prospective bride, a gentle girl whom he warns, "For your...
They run short of water; the coolie offers his flask to his master; and the Merchant, ever fearful of the uppity lower classes, shoots him--only to be acquitted by the Authorities. Ergo, the rule that the underling must want to attack his employer, and the employer cannot be expected to recognize the exception...
...playing the Merchant with flat-out intensity, Tom Bell, who looks more like Brandon de Wilde than J. P. Morgan, only adds to this bombast. His fixed mannerisms and fierce gesturing wear quickly and prevent the audience from taking his mortal fear of the coolie very seriously...