Word: shippings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope foreigners will realize, said one Israeli spokesman with an angry gesture toward the steamer lying at anchor in Haifa harbor, "that what Nasser did to the Panaghia today, he can do to British and American ships tomorrow." To the people of Israel at least, the 550-ton Greek freighter was floating proof that Egypt's Nasser, as master of the Suez Canal, could not be counted on to keep his promise not to interfere with the free passage of shipping. The Panaghia itself was not the only vessel to find its way barred as it tried to pass...
When at last a doctor was permitted on board, he sent two crewmen back to Greece on the verge of mental collapse. Meanwhile, the Greek captain was hauled off to Alexandria for grilling by the Egyptian War Ministry. Soon after his return to his ship, he got his orders to sail-not onward, but back to Haifa...
Last week the "forgotten ship" Panaghia dropped anchor in the Israeli harbor. "In all my years afloat," said Captain Koutales, "I have never experienced such treatment before...
Otherwise, Satellite is rocketshipshape with searching dialogue ("You knew the rocket was my job when you married me"), a crisis (the bomb sticks to the ship's hull), an addled scientist (Donald Wolfit), and a final clinch between Reporter Maxwell and craggy-browed Pilot Kieron Moore. After 85 harrowing minutes Satellite makes port, leaving the corn barrier sadly shattered...
...Sauk Center to visit the family and found themselves strangers, whereupon Lewis turned his home town into Main Street, an overnight literary sensation. Lewis was then 35, and Gracie thinks fame came too early. He and Gracie and their 3-year-old son Wells (named for H.G.) took ship for England and the captain of the Carmania asked them to sit at his table. "Jeezus!" cried Lewis in the very accents of Main Street. "There's something to this being a Famooser...