Word: transatlanticism
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Cruising's routes have changed drastically from a few decades ago. Only one ship, the QE2, still makes the regular transatlantic run from New York City to Southampton, England. Instead of connecting distant cities, many ships now embark from home ports nearer to the scenic waters in which they will...
When he finished playing 18 holes at Killarney on the morning of Black Monday, it was two hours prior to the opening of the New York Stock Exchange because of the five-hour transatlantic time difference. Lynch called up his traders with sell orders, since the wave of redemption requests...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art last week got its new season off to a magnificent start with the doctrinaire mystic of the Spanish Baroque, Francisco de Zurbaran (1598-1664). After Velasquez, El Greco and Ribera, Zurbaran was the best painter the so-called Golden Age of Spanish painting produced, but...
In transatlantic crossings, where planes cannot be monitored by ground-based radar, airliners are assigned parallel tracks that can be at the same altitude but are 60 miles apart. To make sure they are on course, crews are expected to log their position at waypoints based on latitude and longitude...
The transatlantic telephone call came shortly after 9 a.m. last Tuesday, just as National Security Adviser Frank Carlucci was leaving Santa Barbara, Calif., to join Ronald Reagan for a trip to Los Angeles. The caller, Horst Teltschik, had news that would please the President. The West German National Security Adviser...