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Passage of Arms, by Eric Ambler. Flimflammery among gunrunners in the Orient...
...Toll. P. & O. began operations in 1837 with two small paddle steamers and an Admiralty charter to carry the rhails to Spain and Portugal, soon extended its routes beyond the Iberian Peninsula to India and the Orient. When World War I began, the company laid plans for expansion to meet the expected shipping shortage at war's end. Though the Admiralty took over P. & O.'s fleet, the company bought up seven of its competitors, by 1919 controlled half a million more tons of shipping than when the war broke out -though most of its own ships...
...Because of the heat, P. & O. put VIPs in cabins on the relatively cool port side on the journey to the Orient, on the starboasd side on the way home. P. & O. officials soon shortened "port out, starboard home" to "posh." used the word to describe their luxury facilities...
Passage of Arms, by Eric Ambler. Flimflammery among gunrunners in the Orient...
...Five-four-three-two-one." Announcer Hugh Downs did the Canaveral countdown, then launched his rocket: "Here's Jack!" Into public view again loomed Jack Paar, returning to his bereft nighttime audience after his headline-making walkout (TIME, Feb. 22). Home from three weeks in the wise old Orient, he was full of sweetness and contrition. He gave NBC another chance, despite its censorship of the now celebrated W.C. joke, and he admitted that his tantrum had been childish and emotional. "I don't really need enemies," he said, "when I have me." Then he went right after...