Word: round-the-world
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...swimming pool to give inside staterooms an outside view; a picture-windowed cocktail lounge perched aloft in the streamlined main stack. Each ship will carry at least 100 passengers and have space for 500,000 cu. ft. of cargo, and will be plying American President's round-the-world trade routes...
Under the new program American President has already bought" and is converting four Mariner-class freighters, will put them into round-the-world service by summer. The timetable for additional orders: four passenger-cargo ships by July 1956, four to five new freighters for delivery by 1962, four to five more freighters for delivery by 1964, replace the Cleveland in 1964, the Wilson in 1965. Said President's President George Killion: "For years we've been forced to use war-built ships on routes for which they were not designed. But now American President is going to have...
...week stirred up more excitement overseas than it did at home. To begin with, J. Fred Muggs, the 31-lb. chimpanzee who earns $500 a week for co-starring on NBC's Today with Dave Garroway, stopped traffic in Paris, Rome, Cairo and Tokyo on a whirlwind round-the-world tour. London was skipped because NBC felt that British memories might still be green about Muggs's narrowly stealing the coronation telecast from Queen Elizabeth. NBC Pressagent Mary A. Kelly, one of Muggs's entourage of five, wrote home excitedly that Parisians were exclaiming, "Regardez la petite...
Filling transportation requests, either coast-to-coast trips or round-the-world flights, are usually routine matters, thanks to the help of the traffic representatives of the airlines, railroads and steamship companies. Occasionally, however, the bureau gets a surprise request. One of the most unusual came from a TIME executive planning an out-of-town convention who asked for a theater car on the train that was to carry the delegates. No one in Travel had ever heard of a theater car; neither had the railroads. The man who made the request explained that it was a car equipped with...
...Fred Muggs, television's very own extension of the Darwin theory, departed last week on a good-will (i.e., publicity-gathering) round-the-world trip sponsored jointly by NBC and Pan American World Airways. Chimpanzee Muggs and his entourage (two owners, a writer, a cameraman and a man from American Express) are traveling in the front compartments of regularly scheduled passenger planes, will visit Paris, Rome, Cairo, Bangkok, New Delhi, Singapore, Honolulu, Havana. The Muggs staff expects to have no trouble with living accommodations; in some cities leading hotels are already grabbing for the honor of rolling...