Word: dockyards
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...Cause of Mintoff's wrath was an Admiralty decision to fire 40 workmen at the Royal Navy's dockyard, which, together with a NATO naval headquarters constitutes the chief source of employment in the island. Keenly aware of the declining utility of naval bases in a missile age, Mintoff had vastly complicated his integration negotiations with Britain by insisting that whatever becomes of the dockyard, the British must not only agree to maintain full employment in the island, but must also promise to raise Maltese economic standards within twelve years to the same levels enjoyed by the British...
...British proved to be the most casual of mothers. They set up a dockyard at Valletta harbor, and for more than a century, the Navy Estimates were the most exciting thing that happened in Malta, as well as the chief source of livelihood of its 320,000 inhabitants. But the island hardly interested the British until, in World War II, it became the center of bitter struggle with the Italians and the Germans for control of the Mediterranean. Then, as a British air and naval base, with the Maltese dug into its golden limestone, the island held out against...
Such complete integration is an old dream of young Prime Minister Mintoff, son of a onetime British navy cook stationed at Malta's dockyard. A Rhodes Scholar and civil engineer, ambitious young Mintoff has been a leader in Malta's Labor Party since 1936, and Prime Minister since last March. "If I fail in this," he said last week, "I shall resign, and the others will have to govern Malta as best they...
...Cover) When he advances, greasy with makeup, to his daily toil, a motion-picture actor is engulfed-profile, esthetic sensibilities and nervous stomach-in an atmosphere depressingly reminiscent of a submarine dockyard. The sound stage in which he works is as cavernous and gloomy as a wharfside warehouse. The day's set, thrown up in a distant corner as if to dramatize the phoniness and gullibility of man, is bathed in a glare of blue-white light as blinding as that from an arc welder's torch. Half a hundred hairy union men tinker stolidly with furniture, electrical...
Victor Gurney, a 17-year-old dockyard apprentice at Plymouth, told his girl that he loved her so much he could not live without her. She didn't believe him. So Victor went home one day last week, turned on the gas and died. "She will believe me now," he explained in a letter to his parents, scrawled across four pages in a cheap exercise book, "but it's a hard way of proving my love, don't you think...