Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tights when alarm bells started to ring. In the ship's cinema, where Bob Hope was cavorting on the screen with Anita Ekberg in Call Me Bwana, the audience at first thought that the ringing bells were part of the film's plot. But the smell of smoke soon convinced them that something was amiss. Other passengers who had gone to bed early were not yet fully aware of the danger. No fire instructions were issued over the loudspeaker, and the alarm bells stopped ringing so quickly that many people thought it was only a drill...
Memory Drums. The first distress message was tapped out at 11:30 p.m. and gave the Lakonia's position as 180 miles northwest of Madeira. Already, thick, billowing smoke was seeping from under the door of the barbershop, where the fire apparently had started. And by now, the flames had burned their way through the floor. So thick was the smoke that Passenger George Chapman was forced to grab a gas mask as he tried to force his way below to his sleeping three-year-old son Geoffrey. "I thought if I had to die, I wanted...
...near-anarchy on deck. Officers issued contradictory instructions, and crewmen milled around unsure of what to do. Screams filled the air in half a dozen different languages. Unable to comprehend the crew's cries, passengers took charge of small groups and tried to lead them through the thick smoke to their boat stations. Pressed against the rail were scores of passengers in every variety of dress-nightgowns, pajamas, tramp costumes and evening clothes...
...Here You Are, Luv." Tying a rope to his feet, the ship's swimming pool attendant had himself lowered over the side head first, so that he could pull several children through portholes from smoke-filled cabins. Just before going over the side, Susan Redfern opened her pocketbook and gave her husband a gift package. "Here you are, luv," she said. "Merry Christmas." The package contained a handsome pair of gold cuff links...
...Princeton's college-boy lingo, Bill Bradley, 20, is known as a "straight arrow"-meaning, says a classmate, that "he is just what his parents think he is." He does not drink or smoke or chew. He studies seven hours a day for a B average, goes to Presbyterian church on Sunday and polishes off by teaching Sunday school. That would be enough to set him apart on most campuses, but there is more: he is the first All-America basketball player in Princeton's history, and quite possibly the best college player in the game...