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Ten years ago the largest tankers plying the seas were 18,500-tonners. Last week Shipowner Aristotle Socrates Onassis', who operates under five flags, confirmed plans to build a 100,500-tonners more than twice as big as the largest existing tanker, the 7,750-tonners owned by his...
The Vows. By 6 o'clock on the morning of the wedding day, the happy citizenry of Monaco, glutted with public displays, fireworks, royal salutes and dancing in the streets, began to stream up the hill toward St. Nicholas Cathedral. The church was half-filled at 10, when Egypt...
The U.S. liner Constitution hove to off the port of Monaco one morning last week and set Hollywood's Grace Kelly aboard Deo Juvante II, the virginal white 138-ft. yacht of Grace's groom-to-be, Prince Rainier III. All Monaco broke loose. Rockets zoomed, sirens screamed...
¶ Thomas E. Stakem Jr., 48, a career civil service man, was picked by President Eisenhower for a $15,000-a-year seat on the three-man Federal Maritime Board, regulator of merchant shipping routes and subsidies. He succeeds Joseph G. Minetti, who was appointed to the Civil Aeronautics Board...
Niarchos is reputed to get more ship per dollar than anyone else in the business, because, as he says, he "always waits until the yards are thirsty." Thus, when he ordered eight supertankers in thirsty Japanese yards last year, he was able to squeeze costs to $117 a deadweight ton...