Word: shippings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AMONG his other claims to fame, Greek Shipping King Stavros Spyros Niarchos has an art collection worth millions scattered in half a dozen residences in the U.S. and abroad, ashore and afloat. To photograph the favorite paintings that Niarchos keeps aboard his palatial yacht Creole, TIME sent London-based Photographer Larry Burrows flying down to ViHefranche on the French Riviera. Burrows soon ran into trouble: customs red tape ruled out taking the art works ashore; vibration from the yacht's big generators (which Burrows checked by placing a Vichy bottle on deck, watching it quiver) made picture-taking aboard...
...born in Tropea, Italy (real name: Umberto Anastasio), started his career almost as soon as he jumped ship in New York in 1917 to become a dock-walloper on the Brooklyn piers. In 1921 and 1922 he spent 18 months in the death house at Sing Sing for the murder of another longshoreman named George Turrello. The experience taught him the efficacy of wholesale death; when his lawyer got him a new trial, his pals killed off so many witnesses that Al was released. After that he prospered; the waterfront offered, as it still does, wonderful opportunities in pilferage, shakedowns...
...navy. In the harbor, Her Majesty's cruiser Ceylon, the 8,781-ton flagship of Britain's once-mighty East Indies squadron, paused momentarily to exchange naval courtesies with the inward-bound Vijaya, a hastily reconditioned 13-year-old British minesweeper, which is the only "capital" ship of Ceylon's own eight-vessel navy (also one gunboat, six patrol boats). "This step," said Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Diaz Bandaranaike, "was not taken in a spirit of hostility. Our foreign policy is based on friendship with all nations and nonalignment with any power blocs...
...million), which just won important legal battle. Supreme Court upheld lower-court decision that Masters' mail-order house in Washington, D.C., which has no fixed-price law, can sell goods below fair-trade prices in New York State, which does have such a law. Discounters can now ship cut-rate products by mail...
...band of armed robbers climb a hill near the mouth of the Nile and stare down at an awesome sight. A richly laden but crewless merchant ship is moored near shore, the remains of a banquet lie scattered along the beach, and all around sprawl the bodies of slain men. Only two are alive: a badly wounded young Greek named Theagenes, who is being tended by Charicleia, a girl so beautiful that the brigands think she must be a goddess...