Word: ship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...absolutely none of them compare with the cruise we're taking now! We are aboard the French ship M.S. Renaissance, and it's called a Mediterranean Music Cruise, and darling, your father is in such a mood for adventure. He even sent a note to the captain saying how much he liked sailing the high C's. Isn't that funny...
Last year it was The Dirty Dozen. This year it is the filthy 1,500, a mixed bag of World War II regimental rejects who hate the brass en masse. As in Dozen, they are given a last chance to shape up or ship out. Under the brutal direction of their hard-nosed but inexperienced commander (William Holden), they decide that valor is the better part of discretion, and begin playing soldiers in earnest...
...worth of goods for Viet Nam, ranging from sandbags to Isuzu buses. The war less directly helped generate another $800 million in Japanese exports; for example, G.I.s based in Southeast Asia purchased 13% of Japan's total camera exports. Other beneficiaries include Singapore and Malaysia, which store and ship Viet Nam-bound petroleum products, a trade that amounted last year to some $100 million between them...
...Navy officer (Henry Fonda), who has recently lost his wife, returns to shore duty to take care of his ten momless moppets. Trying to run a family like a taut ship, he first finds the kids mutinous-just like Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music. But then, shopping at a supermarket, he runs into an attractive widow (Lucille Ball). She too is a casualty of-and contributor to-the population explosion, with eight unmanageable offspring...
...economy was stricken by Kaunda's decision two years ago to go along with United Nations sanctions against the Ian Smith regime in Rhodesia, from which Zambia bought almost all of its imports. The government thereupon had to impose rationing, buy its goods in more expensive markets and ship by air and truck routes the bulk of the copper that once moved cheaply over Rhodesia's railroad to ports in Mozambique. As a result, Kaunda has had to curtail his $1.2 billion four-year development plan. Because of high black unemployment, average income is only about...