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America’s Bizarre Cold War Secret Hideout
David Ellis GUESTS staying at America’s oldest and most luxurious resort during the Cold War era from the 1960s to ’90s, had no idea they were cavorting above a bizarre subterranean world that could have come straight out of James Bond, the fertile mind of Graham Greene, Hollywood’s Dr Strangelove or maybe even TV’s M*A*S*H. […]
America’s Bizarre Cold War Secret Hideout
David Ellis GUESTS staying at America’s oldest and most luxurious resort during the Cold War era from the 1960s to ’90s, had no idea they were cavorting above a bizarre subterranean world that could have come straight out of James Bond, the fertile mind of Graham Greene, Hollywood’s Dr Strangelove or maybe even TV’s M*A*S*H. […]
DOING IT RIGHT – BARGING INTO LIFE’S LUXURIES
David Ellis AFTER taking part in the Allies’ D-Day landing in Normandy in 1944, the little one-time grain-barge-cum-troop-carrier Etoile de Champagne returned to her homeland Belgium – but instead of a heroes welcome she was ignominiously driven into a river shallows and scuttled to prevent her falling into German hands. There she lay partly-submerged for […]
DOING IT RIGHT – BARGING INTO LIFE’S LUXURIES
David Ellis AFTER taking part in the Allies’ D-Day landing in Normandy in 1944, the little one-time grain-barge-cum-troop-carrier Etoile de Champagne returned to her homeland Belgium – but instead of a heroes welcome she was ignominiously driven into a river shallows and scuttled to prevent her falling into German hands. There she lay partly-submerged for […]
DOING IT RIGHT – BARGING INTO LIFE’S LUXURIES
David Ellis AFTER taking part in the Allies’ D-Day landing in Normandy in 1944, the little one-time grain-barge-cum-troop-carrier Etoile de Champagne returned to her homeland Belgium – but instead of a heroes welcome she was ignominiously driven into a river shallows and scuttled to prevent her falling into German hands. There she lay partly-submerged for […]
QE2 in The Falklands: A Queen takes her lads to war
CAMP BEDS ‘N CAVIAR AS QE2 STEAMS INTO WAR David Ellis FEW governments send their troops into battle on a diet of caviar. Nor do they choose the world’s most famous cruise liner to land them into the fields of war. But that’s what Britain did when it requisitioned the 70,000 tonne Queen Elizabeth 2 […]
QE2 in The Falklands: A Queen takes her lads to war
CAMP BEDS ‘N CAVIAR AS QE2 STEAMS INTO WAR David Ellis FEW governments send their troops into battle on a diet of caviar. Nor do they choose the world’s most famous cruise liner to land them into the fields of war. But that’s what Britain did when it requisitioned the 70,000 tonne Queen Elizabeth 2 […]
Airbus A380: Big solutions
YOU CALL THAT BIG? – THIS IS BIG David Ellis IT’S made up of more than 4,000,000 parts from 1,500 companies around the world, takes nine months to build at a cost of US$390m, seventy-seven have already been sold, deposits put down on 180 more, and one customer wants ninety – worth US$35.1-billion at list […]
Airbus A380: Big solutions
YOU CALL THAT BIG? – THIS IS BIG David Ellis IT’S made up of more than 4,000,000 parts from 1,500 companies around the world, takes nine months to build at a cost of US$390m, seventy-seven have already been sold, deposits put down on 180 more, and one customer wants ninety – worth US$35.1-billion at list […]
Shongolo will Train you to Wild Africa
TRAIN YOURSELF TO GO WILD IN AFRICA David Ellis WHEN Leon Plutsick and his business partner decided to go beyond their travel agency and restaurant ventures and start their own tourist train, they didn’t call in business consultants, bank managers nor even their accountants. They called in a witchdoctor. “Witchdoctors have extraordinary inner senses and […]
