Word: lisbon
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...comptroller knows, it has long cost American companies a lot to station executives in the biggest European cities, like Paris, London and Rome. Now it appears that the living expenses that U.S. firms must foot are substantially higher than Yankee levels in all of the major business centers, including Lisbon, the cheapest European capital...
...actress whose long fight to surmount crippling injuries suffered in a 1943 plane crash was dramatized in the 1952 movie With a Song in My Heart; of a heart attack; in Columbia, Mo. Froman was a popular balladeer en route to entertain troops when her flight crashed near Lisbon. Her marriage to the pilot who saved her life had a fairy-tale flavor, and the optimism she maintained through more than 30 operations on her crippled legs touched millions, especially when she sang such sentimental favorites as I'll Walk Alone and Climb Ev'ry Mountain...
...trips worldwide, with specifics about en route scenery and service (on the Peking-Shanghai run an acupuncturist is available), as well as advice on tour planning. Authors Marvin L. Saltzman and Kathryn Saltzman Muileman even log the World's Longest Train Ride, an 8,000-mile odyssey from Lisbon across Siberia to Khabarovsk that officially takes 218 hours and on the Saltzman and Muileman trip was only 2½ hours late...
...your teeth past your tonsils." Luis earns the Nazis' trust and the Iron Cross with his prescient reports on British planning. In time, Eldorado (Luis' code name) acquires an imaginary network of agents, all handsomely remunerated by German intelligence, which pours their pay into Cabrillo's Lisbon bank account. The cash from Berlin flows and grows. And Cabrillo never gets closer to England than Oporto...
...reviewers, Eldora do falls into the limbo of espionage-thriller-mystery books. A pity, for the story of Luis Cabrillo deserves consideration both as serious fiction and quasi history. As the author acknowledges, Luis is based on a real-life Spaniard code-named Arabel, who blithely invented espionage in Lisbon for the Germans and worked legitimately for the British during the war. Robinson, 48, a Cantabrigian who lives in a Surrey village Wodehousefully named Chipping Sodbury, worked for eight years as a Madison Avenue copywriter to finance his career as a novelist. The experience appears to have sharpened his sense...