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...front?" At Portsmouth, the royal party boarded the new 413-ft. royal yacht Britannia (cost: $6,000,000). After tea, the Queen Mother and Margaret went ashore, and the Britannia set course for the Mediterranean, with the children beaming at the rail while bagpipes skirled on the pier. On May 1 the Britannia is due at the Libyan port of Tobruk. There, Prince Charlie and Princess Anne will rendezvous with their globe-girdling parents, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh...
Photographers' flashbulbs and shopkeepers' eyes popped in happy unison as the sleek green Cunard luxury liner Caronia tied up at a Kobe pier side. "A particularly wonderful group," clucked an official of the Japan Travel Bureau as a long line of Helen Hokinson ladies and balding gentlemen picked their way down the gangplank. "I should estimate that they came 95% to buy souvenirs and only 5% for sightseeing-a tedious business anyway...
...A.F.L.'s insistence, Pier 32's operators, Moore-McCormack Lines, took McMahon back. Right away, the I.L.A. began picketing, and Billy was fired once more. Again, A.F.L. pickets showed up, and A.F.L. teamsters stopped truck deliveries to the pier. Finally, the I.L.A.began a boycott of trucks driven by members of the A.F.L. Teamsters' Union-and kept it up, despite a Federal Court injunction forbidding the boycott...
...Association, switched his membership last fall to the American Federation of Labor's new dock union. One of Billy's cousins who did the same was later found drowned in the Hudson River. Billy McMahon lost only his job as steward of New York's Pier 32. By last week, after six months of waterfront warfare between the A.F.L and the old I.L.A., Billy McMahon had his job back, and the A.F.L. looked like a winner all around...
...NLRB is considering a new election, which the A.F.L. hopes to win. Dock Steward Billy McMahon thinks so. Happily planning to go back to work at Pier 32, he said: "This is very, very good. This is the beginning of the end for the old I.L.A...