Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small, unexceptional Italian port, an American operator-of-sorts (Mr. Bogart) is stranded with his wife (Miss Lollopalooza). Stranded with them are a small (but disciplined) 'group of intriguers, who boast some of the world's greatest faces. The stout Englishman, the spaghettilike Italian, the German exponent of German culture (Peter Lorre) and Mr. Bogart, with his own lovably singular mug, encompass the cinematic world of racketeers, spies, secret agents...
...while this attractive little crew is waiting in port for their captain to sober up (it's been two weeks, y'know), so they can sail to Africa and make a killing in uranium, they become entangled with a British tourist and his wife (Jennifer Jones'). These tea-soaked commoners hold illusions of grandeur and romance which fool the intriguers as thoroughly as they fool the Britishers themselves...
...nonrailroad tuggers in separate negotiations and holding out for wage boosts of 33¼%. The tuggers threatened to call a far greater strike this week, stop most of the fuel shipments into the city and prevent most ocean liners from docking at the world's busiest port...
...ship. Concerned for the Santa Maria's passengers, Dennison promised not to interfere should Galvão enter a harbor to let them land. Galvão replied that he was willing to negotiate with U.S. authorities aboard the Santa Maria or at a neutral port. So saying, he ordered a radical change in course, veered toward the coast of Brazil...
...monks of Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey, near Bardstown, Ky., have a thriving mail order business in cheese, fruit cakes, hams, bacon and summer sausage. They are noted for their cheese, which is made according to a secret formula originated at the Trappist monastery in Port du Salut, France, 700 years ago; only two monks at Gethsemani know the secret, the cheesemaker and an apprentice...