Word: stowaways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abdullah Doe in the Middle East can keep his fez on, 1958 will be the dizziest, busiest merry-go-round in European travel history." Nearly 700,000 voyaging Americans are about to make this breezy prophecy come true. An impressive number of these U.S. tourists will carry a stowaway-Temple Hornaday Fielding. He conies handily packaged in a fact-and opinion-crammed, hard-cover container called Fielding's Travel Guide to Europe, 1958-59 (895 pp.; Sloane; $4.95). Annually revised since its '48 debut, Fielding's Guide has racked up growing sales (the publishers guard actual sales...
...York Herald Tribune's Columnist Roscoe Drummond, far from being acclaimed "with enthusiasm and a determination to pick them up and show that the states really want to reverse the tide of political power which flows to Washington, seemed to be about as popular as a stowaway at the captain's ball." Said Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor George Leader (who is prohibited by law from running for re-election): "I don't think the states are doing a very good job with the things they have-education, mental health and a multitude of other things." Connecticut...
John W. Hurst '56, who successfully reached England as a stowaway this summer, will go on trial in New York City this morning for violating the Federal Stowaway Act. He is subject to a maximum sentence of a $1,000 fine and a year's imprisonment...
Imaginary, too, are the Phragians whom Stewart uses to illustrate the city's neatly Spenglerian life cycle. Archias arrives with the first settlers as a boy stowaway. Ragged and kinless, he carries on his forehead the scar of a cut made as an identification mark during the sack of his unknown native city. Grown prosperous and middle-aged in the hilltop village of Phrax, he fathers Bion, who appears later in the chronicle as a sturdy citizen of a city that is still raw but has years of greatness ahead. Bion's son Callias, heir to wealth, enters...
Four hundred sailors, each with an acceptable silhouette, assembled on deck while the officers poked into every recess of three destroyers (the U.S.S. Hollister, Isbell and Knox). In a steel locker near the after stack of the Hollister, an officer found the stowaway: blue-eyed, barefooted, 24-year-old Elizabeth D. Talk, rigged in pale blue pedal pushers and a well-filled blouse...