Word: ferryboat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Amelia Eden Borelli, 26, Sir Anthony's niece, who ran off to the Italian island of Ischia last year to marry a $34-a-week ferryboat engineer, and Boatman Giovanni Borelli, 30: a daughter; in London, where the couple is visiting. Name: Chaira Maria. Weight...
Father's Tragedy. Back in Japan, Manabu's father had been a prosperous ferryboat owner and hotelkeeper (the House of Flowers). But when Manabu was seven, father fell on evil times. "A Japanese father never explains business affairs to the family," Mabe recalls, "but I knew something terrible had happened. My father was bankrupt and humiliated." His father tried first being a barber, then finally decided to move to Brazil. The family made the 50-day trip in steerage, and father became a contract laborer on a Sao Paulo coffee plantation...
...clashes, 150 rebels and 60 royal soldiers were killed. Held off on land, the Crown Prince commandeered smugglers' craft in Tangier harbor 175 miles awa)', hired a British-owned ferryboat, and landed troops at Alhucemas by sea. Commercial aircraft of Royal Air Maroc were pressed into service to transport supplies, despite the protests of the French pilots who were forced to fly them...
...little blue Fiat slipped into it. But that left the vacationing Sheik of Kuwait in an awkward fix: his three-car caravan (including one blue Cadillac, one black Cadillac) was only two-thirds afloat. No smalltime bey-decker, His Highness Sir Abdullah as Salim as Sabah quickly offered the ferryboat captain $16 to unload the latecomer and make room for the royal limousine. The Milanese tourist in the Fiat bid $32 to preserve the status quo. The Sheik bid $160. The Italian raised him $160, promised the captain $320. Chips cascading from his shoulders, Abdullah said...
Married. Amelia Eden, 25, niece of former British Prime Minister Anthony Eden; and Giovanni Borrelli, 30, $35-a-week engine-room mate on a ferryboat that runs between Naples and Ischia; in Ischia, Italy. Said the bride's mother: "I'm not worried about Amelia's happiness. I know she will be happy. What worries me is the plumbing...