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Rolling through the viridian Kentish countryside, there is time for a leisurely lunch, a free, staunchly English repast designed perhaps to fortify tender turns against the Gallic frivolities to follow. At Folkestone, passengers board a reserved veranda deck on the Sealink cross-channel ferry. In 90 minutes passengers are ashore at the great French port of Boulogne...
...carries 900 or more students around the Baltic and the Mediterranean, needed only modest modifications to be transformed into a floating 1,000-bed hospital. At a British navy dockyard in Gibraltar, 300 workers fitted the ship's stern with prefabricated steel helicopter pads. A smoking room and veranda were converted into operating theaters; a dance hall was turned into a 100-bed ward. Within a week, the Uganda was on its way to the South Atlantic, the strains of Rule Britannia blaring from its loudspeaker system. Similarly, the Canberra was outfitted with a helicopter deck atop its swimming...
...August of 1973 in California was glorious. Each morning, seduced from official papers, I sat on the veranda behind my office at the Western White House in San Clemente and watched as the sun burned the fog off the ocean. Occasionally I saw a slight, stoop-shouldered figure amble along the edge of the cliff beyond which lay only the beach and the Pacific. In that tranquil setting Richard Nixon was enduring the long final torment of his political career. Outside of the seclusion of San Clemente, the country buzzed with speculation about whether he would survive as President...
...public display of warmth and respect that reflected their private views of each other. They talked at the White Elephant, a local restaurant on a sandy strand of beautiful Naama Bay. Relaxed and smiling, the two leaders posed in wicker chairs on the restaurant's windswept veranda like a couple of contented tourists. There was a brief moment when the air of cordiality at the conference was threatened by an angry demonstration of Israeli settlers, who will be forced to leave when the territory returns to Egypt. Sadat later deftly handled the situation by agreeing to hear, although...
Several hundred campesino families were gathered early last week on the dusty veranda of the hilltop plantation house. Dressed in their meager best, they stood respectfully and listened for more than an hour as the man in the short-sleeved guayabera shirt exhorted them to hard work and clean living. The scene looked familiar-an absentee landlord come to survey his patrimony, perhaps. In fact, the speaker was José Antonio Morales Ehrlich, a member of El Salvador's ruling junta and head of the country's far-reaching land-reform program. The campesinos represented 14 new cooperative...